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  • poignant 30  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    In Afghanistan, an old woman her husband in a coma ... She talks and requests and we are witness to all his confidence, everything she has on the heart, her wife at more than miserable condition. It is touching to read what she said they had lived in
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  • A literary glare  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    I was literally dazzled ... I had never read a book with a strange shape, disturbing but incredibly fair. Like Earth and Ashes, I found in the writing of the author which is nothing less than pure sensitivity. His text tip of gestures, words, very he
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  • Great novel on Afghanistan  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    The Prix Goncourt is well deserved - this short novel takes us in Afghanistan and we are witnessing the decline of a man and despair of a woman who ensures his bedside. Several themes recur regularly: legends, religion, or the civil war that prevails
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  • An original story  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    A nice book, brief and surprising writing. The story takes place in a single room, with two characters of which we do not know who they are. A man, inert, and a woman only. And it is the story of a life that scrolls. That of a woman in a country at w
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  • A dazzling darkness  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    In a modest house, situated on the front line of a bloody war, a woman tirelessly watches over her husband. This man is a mujahid wounded by a bullet in the neck for an insult thrown into the face of another. Forced by his entourage to be alone with
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  • It is well written, original, realistic and certainly accessible to everyone I think  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    I enjoyed this book and I took pleasure in reading it. It reflects, I believe, the place of women in society afgane, the mentality of men and especially of extremists. It is a book with many passages poignant and very interesting because we see this
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  • Monologue of a woman released by the silence of her man  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    A woman facing her husband in the frozen silence of deep comas, then begins a long monologue, all she had always wanted to say but could not, for submission, prohibited, modesty or simply fear of brutality . She begins to love him, now that he listen
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  • the courage of a woman  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    This poignant story paints a concession without a finding drifts in some Muslim society that confuses honor and tradition. In civil war in Afghanistan (?) Consumed by clan rivalry since the fall of communism, a woman remains in her husband's bedside,
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  • Of minimal art in literature  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    The passions may be unleashed around this atypical Goncourt. There are two years we had an American and an avalanche of over a thousand pages, this year an Afghan and prose (the word is not correct, it is rather a "proésie") very collected, mini
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  • We must decant  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    This novel is read in one go, as the interest rises to a crescendo. Yet the start stagnating a bit, it's slow, probably voluntarily on the part of the author. Does this not a story of patience? We wonder when will be discussed the famous stone, the l
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  • ATTENTION, MASTERPIECE !!!  

    Syngué sabour: Pierre patience - Prix Goncourt 2008 (Paperback)
    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 l
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