The Patience Stone

ISBN-13: 9780099539544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str.

Atiq Rahimi

Opis

A woman prays at her husbands bedside as he lies in a coma with a bullet in his neck. From outside come the sounds of tanks, gunshots, screaming and, most terrifying of all, silence. Inside, her frightened daughters call to her from the hallway. As she tries to keep her husband alive, the woman rages against men, war, culture, God.

Recenzje

A deceptively simple book, written in a spare, poetic style. But it is a rich read... It is without doubt an important and courageous book Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

O autorze

Born in Afghanistan in 1962, Atiq Rahimi fled to France in 1984. There he has made a name as a writer, film and documentary maker of exceptional note. The film of his first novel, Earth and Ashes, was in the Official Selection at Cannes, 2004. He is adapting his second novel, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, for the screen. Since 2001, he has returned to Afghanistan many times to set up a Writers' House in Kabul and offer support and training to young writers and film-makers. He lives in Paris.