A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

✍ Atiq Rahimi 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Other Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 90 KB

Farhad is a typical student, twenty-one years old, interested in wine, women, and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But he lives in Kabul in 1979, and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever. One night Farhad goes out drinking

✍ Rahimi, Atiq 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 8 KB

### From Booklist _Starred Review_ Fiction can express pain and suffering as little else can, as in this slim novel set in Afghanistan in October 1979, a time between coups and the Soviet invasion. Narrator Farhad, a 21-year-old university student in Kabul, goes out drinking with a friend, forgets

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

✍ Rahimi, Atiq 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 27 KB

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

✍ Rahimi, Atiq 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Other Press 🌐 English ⚖ 44 KB

### From Booklist *Starred Review* Fiction can express pain and suffering as little else can, as in this slim novel set in Afghanistan in October 1979, a time between coups and the Soviet invasion. Narrator Farhad, a 21-year-old university student in Kabul, goes out drinking with a friend, forgets

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear

✍ Rahimi, Atiq 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Other Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 290 KB

Farhad is a typical student, twenty-one years old, interested in wine, women, and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But he lives in Kabul in 1979, and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever. One night Farhad goes out drinking

Three by Atiq Rahimi: Earth and Ashes, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, The Patience Stone

✍ Atiq Rahimi 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Other Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 436 KB

**Three short novels—including Prix Goncourt–winning *The Patience Stone* —that convey years of Afghan history, heartache, and hope. Never before in paperback.** Atiq Rahimi’s reputation for writing war stories of immense drama and intimacy began with his first novel, *Earth and Ashes*, about