Atiq Rahimi

Earth and Ashes

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Key item features

Title Context: Earth and Ashes
Primary Contributor: Atiq Rahimi
System ISBN Index: 9780099442127
Language Presentation: English (US Standard)
Page Manifest Extent: Standard Printing Edition Count pages

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"When the Soviet Army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village and the death of his clan. His young grandson Yassin, deaf from the sounds of the bombing, is one of the few survivors. The two set out through an unforgiving landscape, searching for the coal mine where Murad, the old man's son and the boy's father, works.

They reach their destination only to learn that they must wait and rely for help on all that remains to them: a box of chewing tobacco, some unripe apples, and the kindness of strangers."--BOOK JACKET.