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The patience stone

Rahimi, Atiq2011
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A woman prays at her husbands bedside as he lies in a coma with a bullet in his neck. From outside come the sounds of tanks, gunshots, screaming and, most terrifying of all, silence. Inside, her frightened daughters call to her from the hallway. As she tries to keep her husband alive, the woman rages against men, war, culture, God.
Main title:
The patience stone / Atiq Rahimi ; translated from the French by Polly McLean ; with an introduction by Khaled Hosseini.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2011.
Collation:
135 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2010.
Awards:
Goncourt Prize 2008
ISBN:
9780099539544 (pbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
1219672
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