This section of the book seemed much more noticeably haunted than the first section. Obviously the whole novel is rife with  metaphorical hauntings; Aadam with his lost faith, Amina with her lost love, the list goes on. But this section had much less figurative hauntings. Mary Pereira is quite literally haunted by the ghost of Joseph D’Costa; he comes back, decaying and doom-laden to walk the halls of her home. Joseph D’Costa’s literal haunting is linked to the more metaphorical haunting of Mary’s guilt, but the overall theme of haunting becomes very clear. Somewhat less blatantly than Joseph D’Costa’s shambling corpse but definitely more literally than expressed previously in the book, Amina is haunted by Nadir Kahn. He comes suddenly back into her life in a different form and begins to haunt her, contacting her secretly and disrupting her life. Finally, Musa reenters the story to haunt as well. He too metaphorically died and came back in a different form. He even gets mistaken for a ghost by Mary and requires a final absolution before he can rest in peace. The entire section kicks the haunting up a notch into the realm of the semi-literal.