A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear – $225
by rgonzalezr
Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Other Press (January 11, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1590513614 Fiction can express pain and suffering as little else can, as in this slim novel set in Afghanistan in October 1979, a time between coups and the Soviet invasion. Narrator Farhad, a 21-year-old university student in Kabul, goes out drinking with a friend, forgets the curfew and password, and is apprehended by jackbooted soldiers who beat and kick him, leaving him unconscious in a sewer. Mahnaz, the widowed mother of a […]
Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Kabul, Other Press