earth and ashes
earth and ashes by atiq rahimi 68pp, chatto & windus, £9. 99
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scattering by air – a very symbolic gesture of freedom and release, scattering ashes into the air is a versatile method used to disperse remains on private and public lands. after the scattering, the ashes can be ceremonially raked into the ground or left alone for the earth to claim .
' ashes to ashes' derives from the english burial service. the text of that service is adapted from the biblical text, genesis 3: 19 (king james version) :
and the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunder, and lightning, and an earthquake .
and the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake .
a novella written by afghan author atiq rahimi, earth and ashes paints an accurate picture of afghanistan during the soviet invasion. dust, tears, heartbreak - - earth and ashes focuses on a grandfather and his grandson, both of whom are visiting the grandfather' s son (the grandson' s dad) to inform him of horrific news that threatens to rip their family apart. a compelling read .
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the prayers have gone up, and the sprinkling of the ashes earthward is the symbol of the answer descending from heaven. we may recall the similar action of moses before pharaoh, when he took ashes of the furnace and sprinkled it towards heaven, but it descended towards earth, as a symbol of the plague about to fall upon the land (
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). the hot ashes are the tokens of the coming judgments. as in the parallel vision in ezekiel (
and there took place thunders, and voices, and lightnings, and an earthquake .
revelation 8: 5 commentaries: then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake .
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the term has been used frequently in literature and song lyrics. ashes to ashes is the title of a 2009 bbc television series. it was also used as a song title by david bowie in 1980, which included one of his best - known lyrics :
scattering by trench – after a shallow trench or grove is dug into the soil, the ashes are ceremonially poured in and then covered with soil. the trench can simply be a hole, or shaped into a symbol or to spell out a word. some people scatter ashes using the trench technique on a beach and time it so the tide comes, breaks down the uncovered trench, and washes the ashes out to sea .
forasmuch as it hath pleased almighty god of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our lord jesus christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself .
5. cast it into the earth—that is, unto the earth: the hot coals off the altar cast on the earth, symbolize god' s fiery judgments about to descend on the church' s foes in answer to the saints' incense - perfumed prayers which have just ascended before god, and those of the martyrs. how marvellous the power of the saints' prayers !
grief journey – cremation ashes don’t have to be scattered all in one place. if you divide the remains into several small containers you can scatter the ashes wherever you see fit. plan a vacation to visit places of significance, or make a spiritual pilgrimage. another option is to keep the ashes in an urn and remove a tablespoon or two for scattering whenever you travel or move to a new place .
scattering by burial – similar to the trench method but more akin to a traditional cremation burial, except the ashes are buried in a location other than a cemetery. the ashes can simply be poured into the hole or placed in a biodegradable urn for burial .
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cremation ashes may be scattered personally or through a service depending on the method of dispersal. if you choose to perform your own ash scattering, it is best to have one person at a time control the release from the container while the others observe. a group may take turns doing a partial scattering one at a time, or they might release the ashes simultaneously from smaller containers each containing a portion of the ashes .
however the scattering takes place, it is important to cast the ashes downwind to keep the remains from blowing onto your party. cremation ashes are not in any way a health risk, but some may find the contact disturbing or disrespectful. the ashes will consist of dense, sand - like matter and a few bone fragments that will likely fall to the ground quickly, but some will remain airborne in the form of a whitish - gray cloud upon dispersal .
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ascension release – instead of being dispersed from the ground, another option is to have the ashes scattered from the sky. this is usually done by professionals, who cast the ashes from a private plane over sea or land. other options include - but are not limited to - hang gliders, hot air balloons and weather balloons. some will allow you to do the scattering yourself or will coordinate with your ceremony to fly over and scatter the ashes so that the dispersal can be seen from the ground .
lit. ,
from or out off the fire ,
i. e. , the coals or hot ashes. for ἐκ out off see on
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there is no carping to be done with the details of a book such as this, because the text so manifestly serves noble purposes of consciousness and of conscience. earth and ashes is an ethical act that must be taken as a whole; it transcends the ordinary categories of literature. rare is the book that warrants, for its moral illuminations, such pure esteem .
and cast it into the earth - margin, upon. the margin expresses undoubtedly the meaning. the symbol, therefore, properly denoted that fearful calamities were about to come upon the earth. even the prayers of saints did not prevail to turn them away, and now the symbol of the scattered coals indicated that terrible judgments were about to come upon the world .
( revised version). the angel now returns to the altar of burnt offering, whence he takes fire, which he casts upon the earth. this action denotes that god' s judgments are about to descend on the earth, and it therefore forms the visible token of god' s acceptance of the prayers of the saints, and his answer to them .
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in addition to the more traditional avenues of cremation burial or preservation in a columbarium, the scattering of ashes is a meaningful and time - honored means of memorializing a loved one after cremation. there are several methods for the release of ashes that can be personalized in any number of ways. much of the decision depends on the wishes of the deceased and how those left behind want to honor that person’s memory. consider your choices carefully; once the ashes are scattered they are gone forever, unless you keep a portion of the remains for remembrance or as part of a keepsake .
earth and ashes is a story of such spareness and power it leaves the reader reeling. set during the russian occupation of afghanistan, it is a fable about war, family, home and tradition. an old man and his grandson sit in a deserted landscape of dusty roads and looming mountains. what are they waiting for? as we watch them we learn their story... atiq rahimi has managed to condense centuries of afghan history into his short tale of three very different generations. at the same time, he has created a story that is universal in its power .
for all the sympathy the book generates, the characters remain in many ways bewildering to a western reader. here one is forced to accept a culture different not only on its surface but also in its very conception of human relations. these characters think things we would never think and act in ways we would never act. earth and ashes opens a way into afghan life but keeps that life unfamiliar. this is one of its triumphs: it does not allow its readers the arrogance of identification .
“anyone seeking to understand why afghanistan is difficult and what decades of violence have done to its people should read atiq rahimi. he is a superb guide to a hard and complex land. ” —ryan crocker, former us ambassador to pakistan and iraq, and us envoy to afghanistan “the blasted dreamscape of rahimi’s story and his tightly controlled prose make this a sobering literary testament to the horrors of war. ” — publishers weekly “it has the feel of a book of great antiquity and authority; you could more readily level the afghan mountains than damage the dreaming culture that earth and ashes both embodies and silently trusts. ” — london times “with this novel rahimi picks up a shard of broken glass and sees the whole truth of his devastated country. ” — der spiegel (germany )
. on these coals no incense was placed, but they were thrown at once to the earth. the new emblem, therefore, is the taking of coals, and scattering them abroad as a symbol of the destruction that was about to ensue .
. this is a new symbol, designed to furnish a new representation of future events. by the former it had been shown that there would be much prayer offered; by this it is designed to show that, notwithstanding the prayer that would be offered, great and fearful calamities would come upon the earth. this is symbolized by casting the censer upon the earth, as if the prayers were not heard any longer, or as if prayer were now in vain .
there are a variety of creative options for how and where the ashes are scattered. often, cremated remains are dispersed at a place that had personal or philosophical significance to the deceased. it can be a favorite destination such as a beach, forest or meadow; or someplace that reflects the person’s everyday life such as a park, golf course or even their own home. keep in mind when choosing a location that there are laws governing the scattering of cremation remains. these laws vary from state to state and will affect how and where the ashes can be scattered, and whether you will need a permit to do so .
memorial crafting – a portion of the remains can be preserved inside a keepsake…or crafted into one. for example, a small amount of ashes can be handcrafted into glass - blown tokens, jewelry or glass art and inscribed with a memorial message. cremation ashes can also be mixed into charcoal, paint and tattoo ink, or used in a more involved process to create objects such as fireworks or even diamonds. many memorial crafts such as these are created by artists all over the country, so take the time to explore what possibilities are available to you .
atiq rahimi (b. 1962, kabul) moved to pakistan in 1984 and finally to france where he received political asylum; he then studied at the sorbonne. in 1992 - 1995 he shot several documentaries for french television. in 2000 his first novel, earth and ashes, was warmly received by french critics, and in 2004 the author transferred it to the screen as his first feature. the film was chosen for the section un certain regard at the recent festival in cannes. rahimi published another novel in france in 2002, les milles maisons du rêve et de la terreur .
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atiq rahimi’s earth and ashes tells an enormous story by way of a very small one. the narrative, written in the second person, describes the journey of an old man, dastaguir, with his grandson, yassin. they are going to see the grandfather’s son, the grandson’s father, murad, who works in a mine and wasn’t at home when his afghan village was destroyed by the russians and nearly everyone was killed. the first half of the book describes dastaguir’s wait with yassin at the roadside checkpoint for a truck to take them the final leg of their weeklong journey to the mine; the second half is about dastaguir’s ride to and arrival at his destination .
earth and ashes is the spare, powerful story of an afghan man, dastaguir, trying desperately to reach his son murad, who 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 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 son, who does not yet know, and his own, made even crueler by the message he must deliver .
brevity is the sister of talent ,
wrote anton chekhov, thinking of his short stories, in 1889. his comment applies equally, if uneasily, to the heterogeneous fictions caught between the novel and the short story. post - conrad, james, woolf and rhys, the short novel is still often seen as a second - class form, lacking both the novel' s scope and range and the manoeuvrability of the short story proper, which raymond carver loved because it
can be written and read in one sitting
. when the writing calls for a more muscular definition, publishers offer unwieldy conjunctions (
short fictions
,
short prose
) or duck the question altogether with
shorts
. two fictions from france, earth and ashes and desolation, inhabit this genre - bending ground .
the story of the village' s destruction emerges bit by bit, while dastaguir distracts himself from his grief with simple objects: an apple, stones, chewing tobacco. following the old man' s jumps of attention, earth and ashes progresses in choppy, disconnected paragraphs. even its conversations fail: yassin, deafened by the blast, repeats
water !
,
all dead
or
don' t !
, unresponsive to his grandfather' s pleas and rebukes. his uncomprehending deafness mirrors the book' s own strangeness: filtered through dastaguir' s apathetic gaze, its gathered fragments remain oddly unaffecting .
8: 1 - 6 the seventh seal is opened. there was profound silence in heaven for a space; all was quiet in the church, for whenever the church on earth cries through oppression, that cry reaches up to heaven; or it is a silence of expectation. trumpets were given to the angels, who were to sound them. the lord jesus is the high priest of the church, having a golden censer, and much incense, fulness of merit in his own glorious person. would that men studied to know the fulness that is in christ, and endeavoured to be acquainted with his excellency. would that they were truly persuaded that christ has such an office as that of intercessor, which he now performs with deep sympathy. no prayers, thus recommended, was ever denied hearing and acceptance. these prayers, thus accepted in heaven, produced great changes upon earth. the christian worship and religion, pure and heavenly in its origin and nature, when sent down to earth and conflicting with the passions and worldly projects of sinful men, produced remarkable tumults, here set forth in prophetical language, as our lord himself declared, lu 12: 49 .
there is some variety among the mss. in the order of the words here used. some place “lightnings” before “voices. ” these signs and sounds herald the approach of judgments. god has arisen in answer to the cry of his people. “the earth shook and trembled. there went up a smoke and a fire: coals were kindled at it. at the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. the lord also thundered in the heavens, and the highest gave his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them: he shot out lightnings and discomfited them... he delivered me from my strong enemy” (
scattering by water – the remains are scattered onto a body of water from the shore, a dock or a boat. loved ones may place flowers, petals or floating candles into the water alongside the remains as a tribute. these will float on top of the water while the ashes sink below the surface .
written by atiq rahimi, an afghan political exile in paris, and translated by erdag m goknar, earth and ashes was acclaimed in france as a baffling
prodigy
.
novel, short story, fable ?
wondered one critic. at barely 60 pages, the question is apt. rahimi' s book follows an old man, dastaguir, and his grandson, yassin, sole survivors of a russian bomb that devastated their village, as they carry the news to the mine where the boy' s father works. their long wait at a dusty border post is narrated by dastaguir in a strained second person, both inviting the reader to share his experiences and insisting on his own detachment from them. the cumulative effect is one of shocked numbness: the old man speaks to himself as though to a stranger, issuing fragmented pleas, questions and instructions :
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earth and ashes ‘s story is just eighty - one pages long, more the length of an epic poem than a novel. it shares with poetry a simultaneous richness and discipline of language – one feels the economy of expression in every sentence, but there is a lushness, too, in the barren context of the narrative. the most lyrical writing is inside quotation marks, the author giving his characters a more poignant eloquence than he claims for himself, an eloquence that the translation seems to sustain. a shopkeeper says to dastaguir, “you know, father, sorrow can turn to water and spill from your eyes, or it can sharpen your tongue into a sword, or it can become a time bomb that, one day, will explode and destroy you. ” yassin has gone deaf from the sound of the bombs, but he attributes the quiet to the world rather than to himself, and he says, “the bomb was huge. it brought silence. the tanks took away people’s voices and left. they even took grandfather’s voice away. grandfather can’t talk anymore, he can’t scold me. ”
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the often spare and elliptical narration, and the very effective descriptions of the weariness and worry of the most simple actions and exchanges, work very well. this is a powerful, understated work - - but in conveying the complete crushing of these souls so well is also horribly, horribly bleak .
has murad turned away from tradition and family, and embraced the ways of the outsiders? has he forgotten what matters? it all turns out to be more complicated; it also turns out that dastaguir and murad and yassin have been entirely disenfranchised, powerless against those who can much more easily (and forcefully) impose their will. ultimately, too, there is nowhere for them to turn, and dastaguir and yassin will, essentially, walk back out into the wilderness, as their world has been taken from them .
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directed by: atiq rahimi produced by: les films du lendemain genre: fiction - runtime: 1 h 45 min french release: 05 / 01 / 2005 production year: 2004 dastaguir sits besides the side of a road, his little grandson yassin by his side. the desolate afghan landscape spreads out around him: a partially destroyed bridge, a dry riverbed below, arid mountains in the distance, and a long, dusty road reaching its vanishing point at the horizon. the road leads to a distant mine - - a destination dreaded and yet sought out by dastaguir. he reluctantly undertakes this journey to see his son, yassin' s father, who works at the mine. he must tell him that their village has been bombed and their family killed. it' s a difficult task for the old man who is torn between his own grief, unbearable solitude and the codes of honor so deeply engrained in the afghan soul. while struggling with so many conflicting emotions, dastaguir comes across various strangers on his way: a grumpy guard in his sentry house, a philosophical merchant, a mysterious veiled woman who endlessly waits, and other victims of this vile war that continues elsewhere, off screen .
earth and ashes
is a fable about devastating loss, redemption and the perseverance of the human spirit when confronted with the atrocities of war. more info: urltoken
which being here more generally mentioned, are by and by more particularly expressed .
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short novels lend themselves to fable and allegory, constantly negotiating between their own neatly bounded spaces and the tangled sprawl of politics and society. where the 1, 400 - page sweep of war and peace, say, is inextricably engaged with the society it describes, retreat to the confines of a novella may suggest the deliberate isolation of dissent .
and the angel took the censer, .... the golden one before mentioned, the use of which was to take and carry in it burning coals of fire :
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atiq rahimi (عتیق رحیمی) was born in afghanistan in 1962, and has lived in france since 1984 .
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), physical disturbances here accompany the manifestation of god’s wrath and judgment. in answer to the prayers and longings of the saints (renan, 393), god at last visits the impenitent pagan world with a series of catastrophes (
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i read a lot a lot. to discover a writer who' s little known in anglosaxonia, who tells a simple, everyday tale with the power, the beauty and the brilliance of this tiny book is a rare and wonderful event. it' s about afghanistan as occupied by russia, but it' s really about what we do in war and what goes unoticed by the politicians who sit in comfortable offices and order the killings to occur. rahimi' s other books are equally extraordinary. i read this in one glued to my chair sitting and rushed out to buy his others !
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elderly dastaguir and his newly deaf 5 - year - old grandson yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where dastaguir' s son murad works. dastaguir... see full summary »
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. the order is not the same here as there, but lightnings, thunderings, and voices are mentioned in both .
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atiq rahimi, whose reputation for writing war stories of immense drama and intimacy began with this, his first novel, has managed to condense centuries of afghan history into a short tale of three very different generations. but he has also created a universal story about fathers and sons, and the terrible strain inflicted on those bonds of family during the unpredictable carnage of war .
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slowly, dastaguir' s story can be pieced together, as it is explained why he is here now, and, for example, why the young boy is now deaf (though the boy himself barely realizes it). the story is set during the soviet occupation of afghanistan in the 1980s. while not indomitable, the foreigners are a powerful presence and the crushing force they can apply directly - - and horribly - - affected dastaguir and the village he comes from; they also control the mine where murad works .
yasmina reza, another parisian, has drawn on camus and houellebecq' s brutal accounts of alienation for her own short novel. in desolation, translated by carol brown janeway, the ageing narrator, samuel, addresses a series of reflections and complaints to his absent son. samuel' s mordant comments balance precariously between relish and bitterness: their acerbic charm is always on the verge of turning rancid .
this is an extraordinary short story or novella. it is the story of a grandfather and grandson travelling together to find their son / father respectively. it sounds like a simple story, but it is based during the russian occupation of afghanistan and blends great tragedy with honest thoughts and feelings of the characters whilst also making reference to the eleventh century, persian, book of kings. it is absolutely transferrable to the present day and could easily be a story of a family in the very recent past! this book was a recommendation for me based on other books i had read. it was a great recommendation and i will definitely read more from this author .
the book is partly allegorical: the characters represent the problems of afghanistan and stand in for a much larger ravaged population. it conveys with heartbreaking clarity the quality of a destroyed country and its courageous, nearly annihilated inhabitants. what is perhaps most terrifying of all is that this book is set during the russian invasion of afghanistan; this is how bad things were before the mujahideen and the taliban. we have become somewhat inured to the horror, so much of which we witnessed on news broadcasts, until we thought we knew it. here it is once again made incomprehensible to us. dastaguir and murad and yassin are the voices of this national despair, but the book is also the compelling narrative of individual afflictions. your heart is in your throat as dastaguir approaches the mine; you are deeply pained by the sadness and confusion with which he approaches a world broken beyond recognition; and you are filled with wonderment at the unbreachable fact of his survival. we get lost in his dreams and in his fears and most of all in his immediate quandary: is it better to go and tell murad what has happened, to bring such miserable news to someone who may now be innocent of it, or would it be better to turn around and go home, leaving murad some further time to live without this knowledge, which cannot do anything but injure him? then again, would it injure him less to hear of it from his old father than to hear the dread words from a stranger ?
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here, is to be understood the wrath of god, often in holy writ compared to fire, poured out upon the roman empire, or the visible church. upon which followed great judgments, and confusions, and tumults, expressed here, or ushered in, as before ,
is a novella of only sixty - seven pages, set on a single day, with barely any action. dastaguir has traveled with his grandson, yassin, to the mine where his son - - and the boy' s father - - murad works. murad left their village four years earlier, and he has only been back four times since - - though most recently just a month earlier. grandfather and grandson wait to hitch a ride for the last stretch, encountering only a few people - - among them the guard on the road and a shopkeeper .
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scotty
) in the television and film series star trek .
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elderly dastaguir and his newly deaf 5 - year - old grandson yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk, as they make their way to the coal mine where dastaguir' s son murad works. dastaguir must tell murad that the rest of their family were all killed in a recent bomb attack .
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. the meaning must be, to represent the same instrument as obtaining god’s mercy on his people, and executing his vengeance on his enemies: cf .
old dastagir and his grandson yassin climb out of a truck in the middle of the arid afghan landscape and set out on foot along a dusty road. they eventually come to a bridge over a dry riverbed. their road continues through the desert to a far away valley where yassin’s father is supposed to work. the old man tries to find a truck that’s going their way. he wants to tell his son that bombs have destroyed their village and that only he and yassin survived. hours pass by and in his sorrow the exhausted old man doesn’t know what to do. he is trapped in his thoughts of the terrible night when his whole family died and little yassin went deaf. because he is afraid that the horrifying news will evoke righteous anger in his son and a desire for revenge, he somewhat subconsciously postpones their meeting. he confides his worries in the people he meets: the bridge guard, a kindly shopkeeper, and a mysterious woman who is also waiting – all are victims of a war which is still going on somewhere off screen. based on his own novel, the filmmaker located the movie on the road connecting kabul with northern afghanistan, which passes through an incredibly photogenic landscape: an undulating desert between mountains. the timeframe of the old man’s journey to find his son is not precisely specified, thus the story takes on the nature of a parable of desperation caused by destructive loss, and of the need and ability of the human spirit to face the horrors of war. the director cast non - actors from among the local inhabitants .
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, where the man clothed in linen is commanded to go between the wheels under the cherub, and fill his hands with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and to scatter them over the city as a symbol of its destruction. here the coals are taken, evidently, from the altar of sacrifice. compare the notes on
i read this book after finishing chris hedges' superb hymn to thanatos ,
war is a force that gives us meaning .
this short book, also written with depth, clarity and beauty, is the
amen
to mr. hedges book. both books highly recommended for those who praise war & support the so - called
war on terror .
and for those who have experienced war? dreams are revived and some dragons are hopefully laid to rest. deep thanks to both writers .
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in a brief few pages, atiq rahmi conjours up the devastation of war on a human level. a penniless old grandfather and his grandson, yassin, deafened from the effects of war (from noise or shock, we don' t know) are making the laborious journey to the mine where murad, yassin' s father, and the only surviving member of the family, is working. the rest of the family has been massacred by the soviets invading afghanistan en route they meet several characters, all in their own way affected by the war. the guard at the bridge, the shop keeper, the truck driver and murad' s boss, all surviving as best they can. in spite of the brevity of this book the profound feeling of damage and loss that it leaves with its reader is a measure of its power. my book had only 54 pages and presumably was an edited version for younger readers. i would love to read the full version, which is no doubt even more powerful and thought provoking .
like meursault and the narrator of whatever, samuel is isolated and imprisoned within the confines of a short novel .
is there a reality outside oneself ?
he wonders .
explain travelling to me ,
he begs his globetrotting son, who has betrayed his father by joining the contemptible
mass of normal people who aspire to happiness
.
the wanderings of an old man and his grandson through the arid but gorgeously photogenic landscape of northern afghanistan, devastated by a war which has been going on for 23 years .
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celestis ambassador marc lee honors wende doohan, her late husband james doohan (star trek' s
mr. scott
) and all those who inspire us. read more
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earth and ashes ( persian : خاکستر و خاک ) is a 2004 afghan film directed by atiq rahimi . it was afghanistan 's submission to the 77th academy awards for the academy award for best foreign language film , but was not accepted as a nominee . it was also screened in the un certain regard section at the 2004 cannes film festival . it won the golden dhow award at the 2005 zanzibar international film festival . 
earth and ashes (persian: خاکستر و خاک) is a 2004 afghan film directed by atiq rahimi. it was afghanistan's submission to the 77th academy awards for the academy award for best foreign language film, but was not accepted as a nominee. it was also screened in the un certain regard section at the 2004 cannes film festival. it won the golden dhow award at the 2005 zanzibar international film festival.
earth and ashes (persian: خاکستر و خاک) is a 2004 afghan film directed by atiq rahimi. it was afghanistan's submission to the 77th academy awards for the academy award for best foreign language film, but was not accepted as a nominee. it was also screened in the un certain regard section at the 2004 cannes film festival. it won the golden dhow award at the 2005 zanzibar international film festival.