“From the boy,” Viktor said gruffly in Russian, then switched to broken Uzbek. “He say… ‘For dowry. Not for me. For family honor.’ He say… sorry he not understand the mahalla before.”
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Dilbar knew. She knew the Russian pensioner, Viktor Ivanovich, who came every Tuesday. He would order a small green tea and complain that the new Uzbek national banknotes were impossible to fold into his worn leather wallet. He never ate the plov . He said it was too greasy for his heart. But sometimes, when he thought no one was looking, he would steal a piece of the fried garlic from the edge of the kazan . “From the boy,” Viktor said gruffly in Russian,