Earth and Ashes - Hardcover

Rahimi, Atiq

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590513452 ISBN 13: 9781590513453

Publisher: Other Pr Llc, 2010

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Review:

EUROPEAN PRAISE FOR "EARTH AND ASHES"
"With this novel Rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country."--"Der Spiegel" (Germany)
"Evokes with intimacy and lyricism the tragedy of a country."--"Liberation" (France)
"A literary creation of a kind not seen for years."--"L'Express" (France)
"The history of Yassin and his grandfather does for our time what Antigone did for the Greeks. . . . Extraordinary."--"La Marseillaise" (France)
"A hallucinatory, tragic cry of despair."--"Le Monde" (France)
"Anyone seeking to understand why Afghanistan is difficult and what decades of violence have done to its people should read Atiq Rahimi. He is a superb guide to a hard and complex land." --Ryan Crocker, former US ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq, and US envoy to Afghanistan
"The blasted dreamscape of Rahimi's story and his tightly controlled prose make this a sobering literary testament to the horrors of war." --"Publishers""Weekly"
"It has the feel of a book of great antiquity and authority; you could more readily level the Afghan mountains than damage the dreaming culture that "Earth and Ashes" both embodies and silently trusts." --"London""Times"
"With this novel Rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country." --"Der""Spiegel" (Germany)

Anyone seeking to understand why Afghanistan is difficult and what decades of violence have done to its people should read Atiq Rahimi. He is a superb guide to a hard and complex land. Ryan Crocker, former US ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq, and US envoy to Afghanistan
The blasted dreamscape of Rahimi s story and his tightly controlled prose make this a sobering literary testament to the horrors of war. "Publishers" "Weekly"
It has the feel of a book of great antiquity and authority; you could more readily level the Afghan mountains than damage the dreaming culture that "Earth and Ashes" both embodies and silently trusts. "London" "Times"
With this novel Rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country. "Der" "Spiegel" (Germany)"

-Anyone seeking to understand why Afghanistan is difficult and what decades of violence have done to its people should read Atiq Rahimi. He is a superb guide to a hard and complex land.- --Ryan Crocker, former US ambassador to Pakistan and Iraq, and US envoy to Afghanistan
-The blasted dreamscape of Rahimi's story and his tightly controlled prose make this a sobering literary testament to the horrors of war.- --Publishers Weekly
-It has the feel of a book of great antiquity and authority; you could more readily level the Afghan mountains than damage the dreaming culture that Earth and Ashes both embodies and silently trusts.- --London Times
-With this novel Rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country.- --Der Spiegel (Germany)

From the Publisher:

'It has the feel of a book of great antiquity and authority; you could more readily level the Afghan mountains than damage the dreaming culture that Earth and Ashes both embodies and silently trusts' Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Other Pr Llc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1590513452
• ISBN 13: 9781590513453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 67