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Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear A Novel

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ISBN-10: 1590513614

ISBN-13: 9781590513613

Edition: 2011

Authors: Atiq Rahimi

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Description:

Farhad is a typical student, twenty-one years old, interested in wine, women, and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But he lives in Kabul in 1979, and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever. One night Farhad goes out drinking with a friend who is about to flee to Pakistan, and is brutally abused by a group soldiers. A few hours later he slowly regains consciousness in an unfamiliar house, beaten and confused, and thinks at first that he is dead. A strange and beautiful woman has dragged him into her home for safekeeping, and slowly Farhad begins to feel a forbidden love for her-a love that embodies an angry compassion…    
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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 1/11/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Atiq Rahimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1962. Leaving Afghanistan during the war with the Soviet Union, he obtained political asylum in France, and after earning a doctorate in communications, works as a documentary filmmaker.