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"You know, father, sorrow can turn to drinking water and spill from your eye, or it can sharpen your tongue into a sword, or it can become a time bomb that, one day, will explode and damage you."Earth and Ashes is the free, powerful story of the Afghan man, Dastaguir, trying desperately to reach his boy Murad, that has left his village to earn a living working at a mine. In the meantime the village has been bombed by the Russian army, and Dastaguir, with his newly-deaf grandson Yassin in tow, must reach Murad to simply tell him of the carnage. The old man is beset on all sides by sorrow, that of his grandson, who cannot understand, that of his boy, who does not yet know, and his own, made even crueler by the meaning he must deliver. Atiq Rahimi, whose reputation for writing battle stories of tremendous crisis and intimacy started with this, his first book, has managed to condense generations of Afghan record into a short story of three completely different years. But he has also created a common history about fathers and sons, and the horrendous tension inflicted on those bonds of family during the unstable carnage of battle.
