ATTENTION, MASTERPIECE !!!

In Earth and Ashes - his first novel - Atiq Rahimi traced brilliantly silence, smells and dust from his Afghan soil with Syngué Sabur (the stone of patience) - her third novel - The Afghan poet embarks on a bet risky: uncover the feelings and daily life of an Afghan woman sentenced to ensuring its Moudjahed husband paralyzed by a stray bullet.
Abandoning Farsi, his native language, for the French, his adopted language, the writer-director - spiritual son of the great Afghan writer Bahodine Majrouh - gives us a thrilling story with disturbing connotations also as sulphurous. Buoyed by the musicality of the text, this shocking confession written in the feminine reveals us - with an unconscious spirit in these times of fatwa - a share of unexpected shade. Mission accomplished, the masterpiece is the rendezvous.