Atiq Rahimi

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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"You know, father, sorrow can turn to water and spill from your eyes, or it can sharpen your tongue into a sword, or it can become a time bomb that, one day, will explode and destroy you"  Earth and Ashes is the spare, powerful story of an Afgha...

• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Jan-2010
• / Literary
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“For far too long, Afghan women have been faceless and voiceless. Until now. With The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman�"and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions…it is...

• Mar-2014
• / Psychological Suspense
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Reading Dostoevsky in Afghanistan becomes “crime without punishment”Rassoul remembers reading Crime and Punishment as a student of Russian literature in Leningrad, so when, with axe in hand, he kills the wealthy old lady who prostitutes his bel...