The Patience Stone

- "حجر الصبر" قصة قد تؤخذ على ظاهرها وقد يكون لها العديد من التفسيرات، لكنها بجميع الأحوال قصة مؤلمة قاتمة وسوداوية. - بظاهرها، قصة امرأة تعتني بزوجها المشلول بعد اصابته بطلق ناري في عنقه، امرأة تبدأ سلسلة من الإعترافات لزوجها من قبل زواجهما الى اللحظة الراهنة، فتهتك كل مستور، وتخبره عن كل الخبايا، ع......more

A nameless Afghan woman pours out her heart to her comatose husband who lies wounded from a skirmish. The wounds were accidentally inflicted by his own troops. She begins to think of him as her "patience stone" (from a Middle Eastern fable), which will lessen her troubles, fears and guilt by telling......more

This has got to be one of the most powerful and illuminating books I have ever read. As Khaled Hosseini states, in the introduction for this book: "It is a vexing fact that women are the most beleaguered members of Afghan society. Long before the arrival of the Taliban, Afghan women struggled for bas......more

Afghanistan. Un letto in una stanza qualsiasi. Una stanza in un quartiere qualsiasi. Un quartiere di una città non definita; una città qualsiasi. Suoni che arrivano dall'esterno: il portatore dell'acqua che bussa alla vicina, un ragazzo che canticchia in bicicletta. Poi bombe, kalashnikov, spari che avv......more