The Patience Stone

Atiq Rahimi · 2008 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

In a ruined Afghan city a woman sits by her husband, a fighter lying in a coma, and finally says aloud everything she could not say while he was awake. Her confessions grow bolder as the war closes in on the house. Rahimi, born in Kabul, wrote it in French, his second language, and won the Goncourt for it.

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