Book · 2008 · Fiction

The Patience Stone

Name: The Patience Stone
Author: Atiq Rahimi

Other Press · 141 pages

★ 5.0 editorial score

A woman tends her comatose husband, a bullet in his neck, and tells him everything Afghanistan never let her say. In Persian legend the patience stone absorbs every confession until it shatters.

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