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Born in Afghanistan in 1962, Atiq Rahimi fled to France in 1984. There he has made a name as a writer, film and documentary maker of exceptional note. The film of his first novel, Earth and Ashes, was in the Official Selection at Cannes, 2004. He is adapting his second novel, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, for the screen. Since 2001, he has returned to Afghanistan many times to set up a Writers' House in Kabul and offer support and training to young writers and film-makers. He lives in Paris.
Terribly poignant * Times Literary Supplement * Novel, short story, fable? - it doesn't matter. This short book has a sadness that breaks your heart and a visual beauty shot through with the horror of war. Every word, every tear, every gesture is significant * Nouvel Observateur * Dense, provocative and, most of all revelatory -- Claire Allfree * Metro * A hallucinatory, tragic cry of despair * Le Monde * With this novel Rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country * Der Spiegel *
