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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
Atiq Rahimi
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Description for A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
Paperback. Farhad is a typical student, interested in wine, women and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But one night changes all that. This work talks about the fractured mind and emotions of a country caught between religion and the political machinations of the world's super powers. Translator(s): Maguire, Sarah; Yari, Yama. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
Kabul, 1979. A student wakes in an unfamiliar house, battered and bruised. He gradually recovers his mind to discover that returning from a night out he was brutally attacked by soldiers and left to die.
Farhad, the tragic hero of this nightmarish tale, realises that he can now never return home: to do so would be to risk the lives of his family. As he waits for an answer to his plight he learns the tragic story of the woman who has saved him, endangering her own life in the process, and begins to feel an impossible and forbidden ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
121g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099461968
SKU
V9780099461968
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About Atiq Rahimi
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 has written two novels, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear and The Patience ... Read more
Reviews for A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
The novella is verbal photography...[it] seems the real thing...seamlessly translated
Russell Celyn Jones
The Times
A taut and brilliant burst of anguished prose...both a wonderful and a dreadful little book
Guardian
A beautiful piece of writing
Ruth Pavey
Independent
Short but powerful...The beauty of the language lends this work a haunting clarity ... Read more
Russell Celyn Jones
The Times
A taut and brilliant burst of anguished prose...both a wonderful and a dreadful little book
Guardian
A beautiful piece of writing
Ruth Pavey
Independent
Short but powerful...The beauty of the language lends this work a haunting clarity ... Read more