"Amid gritty v é rit é details, Mr. Tapa follows the hawk-nosed Dilawar Mohamad Imran Tapa, a sympathetic 17-year-old pickpocket whose scuffling life stifles dreams of escape."
"There is an old man — bright-eyed and hawk-nosed, who makes the daily trek to a ragged garden overlooking the sea."
"The hawk-nosed doctor said something to her aunts in that same unfamiliar language."