With its juxtaposition of beauty and horror, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear is one of the most overwhelming books I have ever been given to read.'
Le Devoir
'Rahimi has followed his sublime Earth and Ashes with a novel you absolutely must read. A book full of the legends, myths and fantasies of the Afghan imagination.'
French Elle
PRAISE FOR EARTH AND ASHES,
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2004 IMPAC PRIZE
"This handsome stony fable is the first many English readers will have seen of contemporary literature from Afghanistan or, indeed, of Persian writing at all... Monumental despite its brevity.' The Times
'With this novel Rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country.' Der Spiegel
'The history of Yassin and his grandfather does for our time what Antigone did for the Greeks... Extraordinary.'
La Marseillaise