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Author's name: Atiqi Rahimidar Publisher: Al-Saqi for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2013 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: The Afghan writer Atiqi Rahimi condenses his country's tragedy in a small room where a young woman stays awake for her husband's comfort, who was a mujahid in the most futile wars, after he was shot in his neck. The man's eyes are open and his lifeless body is immersed in a coma of violence and sins, and the woman recites her prayers and the names of Allah the Most Beautiful on the rhythm of his breathing. The absent man from the world becomes her patience stone, and the woman becomes the Afghan Scheherazade whose mouth pours out a stream of sharp words, charged with hidden desires. She enters into frank honesty and hysterical supplication with her husband and reveals her most dangerous secrets, challenging her fear and submission... Atiqi Rahimi was born in Afghanistan in 1962. He completed his secondary education in Kabul and then sought asylum in France in 1984. His works published by Al-Saqi include: "The Patience Stone," "Dostoevsky Cursed," "Love in Exile."