Three by Atiq Rahimi: Earth and Ashes, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, The Patience Stone
by Rahimi, Atiq
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- Very Good
- Paperback
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- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590516303
- ISBN 13
- 9781590516300
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Atiq Rahimi was born in Afghanistan in 1962, and fled to France in 1984. There he has become renowned as a maker of documentary and feature films, and as a writer. The film of his novel Earth and Ashes was in the Official Selection at Cannes in 2004 and has won a number of prizes. A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear has also been adapted for the screen. His adaptation of The Patience Stone , which he co-wrote and directed, was also recently made into a feature film. Since 2001 Rahimi has returned to Afghanistan to set up a Writers’ House in Kabul and to offer support and training to young Afghan writers and filmmakers. His new novel, A Curse on Dostoevsky is forthcoming from Other Press. He lives in Paris. Erdag Göknar , a scholar and literary translator, is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University and is the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk's best-selling novel, My Name is Red . Sarah Maguire is an award-winning poet as well as translator and founder of the Poetry Translation Centre based in the UK. Yama Yari co-translated A Thousand Rooms with Maguire at the Poetry Translation Center. Polly McLean is a freelance translator in Oxford, UK. She has translated titles by Catherine Deneuve and Sylvia Kristel (star of the Emmanuelle films) as well as the award-winning Secret by Philippe Grimbert.
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- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0002147818
- Title
- Three by Atiq Rahimi: Earth and Ashes, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, The Patience Stone
- Author
- Rahimi, Atiq
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 1590516303
- ISBN 13
- 9781590516300
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-06-11
- Size
- 1.1811 8.2677 5.5118
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- Book;
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- 0.9700 lb
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- Books