Earth and Ashes

Earth and Ashes
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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 9781590513927
ISBN-13 : 1590513924
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Book Synopsis Earth and Ashes by : Atiq Rahimi

Download or read book Earth and Ashes written by Atiq Rahimi and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 Afghan man, Dastaguir, trying desperately to reach his son Murad, who has left his village to earn a living working at a mine. In the meantime the village has been bombed by the Russian army, and Dastaguir, with his newly-deaf grandson Yassin in tow, must reach Murad to tell him of the carnage. The old man is beset on all sides by sorrow, that of his grandson, who cannot understand, that of his son, who does not yet know, and his own, made even crueler by the message he must deliver. Atiq Rahimi, whose reputation for writing war stories of immense drama and intimacy began with this, his first novel, has managed to condense centuries of Afghan history into a short tale of three very different generations. But he has also created a universal story about fathers and sons, and the terrible strain inflicted on those bonds of family during the unpredictable carnage of war.


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