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I quite liked Rahimi's novella Earth and Ashes, and so decided to seek out his other ones as well. That one was set after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and this one takes place just before it in 1979. The author fled the country that same year, as a teenager, and the protagonist of this fever-dream of a story is a similarly young student who has been out drinking with his close friend, who is fleeing to Pakistan.
Caught out after curfew, he is beaten by soldiers, and wakes up in an unfamili ...more
Caught out after curfew, he is beaten by soldiers, and wakes up in an unfamili ...more
Farhad lives in Afghanistan and one night he is late for curfew and he is beat up by guards. Mahnaz finds him and contacts his family so he can be smuggled into Pakistan. I'm not sure I caught all the meaning in this book, not know a lot about Afghanistan. the book is written very disjointed and it's hard to tell what is real and what Farhad is dreaming.
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Feb 23, 2011
Sara
marked it as to-read
