Atiq Rahimi, trans. from the French by Polly McLean. Other Press, $14.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59051-547-1
“The moment Rassoul lifts the axe to bring it down on the old woman’s head, the thought of Crime and Punishment flashes into his mind.” And so begins and ends Rahimi’s (The Patience Stone) hallucinatory tale. Rassoul, an aimless young Afghan man in...
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Atiq Rahimi, trans. from Dari by Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari, Other Press, $15.95 trade paper (172p) ISBN 978-1-59051-361-3
Rahimi (The Patience Stone) overcomes a stuttering start to deliver an original and utterly personal account of the pressures a totalitarian society exerts on the individual in 1979 Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. After soldiers brutally...
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Atiq Rahimi, Author, Polly McLean, Translator, Khaled Hosseini, Introduction by , trans. from the French by Polly McLean. Other Press $16.95 (141p) ISBN 978-1-59051-344-6
Rahimi (Earth and Ashes
) won the 2008 Prix Goncourt for this brief, melodramatic novel set amid factional violence “somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere.” It follows the circumscribed movements of a Muslim woman largely confined to the
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Atiq Rahimi, Author, Erdag M. Goknar, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19 (96p) ISBN 978-0-15-100698-4
The devastation of Afghanistan during the Soviet war is succinctly and piercingly conveyed in Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi (trans. from the Persian by Erdag M. Goknar), a novella-length account of an old man's futile journey. Dastaguir and his
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