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

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

โœ Scribed by Atiq Rahimi

Book ID
110706449
Publisher
Other Press
Year
2013
Tongue
en-US
Weight
436 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590516317
ASIN
B00BKIYJA8

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โœฆ Synopsis

Three short novelsโ€”including Prix Goncourtโ€“winning The Patience Stone โ€”that convey years of Afghan history, heartache, and hope. Never before in paperback.

Atiq Rahimiโ€™s reputation for writing war stories of immense drama and intimacy began with his first novel, Earth and Ashes, about fathers and sons and the terrible strain inflicted on families, when an Afghan village is destroyed by the Russian army.
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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear takes place in 1979, during a period of social and political upheaval in Kabul. On the way home from a night of drinking, a university student named Farhad is arrested and brutally beaten. A few hours later, broken and confused, he slowly regains consciousness, only to find himself in the care of a beautiful woman who has dragged him into her home to protect him.
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone is the tale of a woman caring for her brain-damaged husband, who was shot in the neck during a petty conflict. After years of living in a society of Islamic fundamentalism, she finds herself strangely liberated by her husbandโ€™s condition. She tells him her innermost thoughts and secrets, many of them dark and deeply repressed, never knowing whether heโ€™s able to hear her or not.

๐Ÿ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
โœ Atiq Rahimi ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2011 ๐Ÿ› Other Press ๐ŸŒ en-US โš– 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

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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
โœ Rahimi, Atiq ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐ŸŒ English โš– 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
A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
โœ Rahimi, Atiq ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2007 ๐Ÿ› Other Press ๐ŸŒ English โš– 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

cover
A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
โœ Rahimi, Atiq ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2011 ๐Ÿ› Other Press ๐ŸŒ en-US โš– 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