Ebook {Epub PDF} A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi

 · A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear consists of Farhad’s splintered memories and dreams mixed with his brief moments of lucidity as Fahad slowly returns to awareness. A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear is a disturbing and masterful depiction of the harrowing circumstances suffered by both men and women in war-torn Afghanistan. A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear elegantly captures the essence of this tumultuous cultural narrative, with all its existential angst. To traverse the fractured mind of Farhad, the protagonist and narrator of Atiq Rahimi’s latest novel, is to glimpse the broken soul of a battered and confused country. Iarhad lives in Kabul in , and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever.

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi, translated by Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari pp, Chatto Windus, £ When I was a teenager I had a recurring nightmare in which I was. A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear. Atiq Rahimi. $ - $ Earth and Ashes. Atiq Rahimi. $ A Curse on Dostoevsky. Atiq Rahimi. $ - $ In a distillation of dream and fear, Atiq Rahimi reduces the thousand rooms of his novel's echoing title to just one, in a widow's house in Kabul with white walls and a carpet.

This information about A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. 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 , and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever. One night Farhad goes out. 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 , and the early days of the pro-Soviet coup are about to change his life forever.