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Author Rahimi, Atiq.
Title The patience stone : sang-e saboor / by Atiq Rahimi ; translated by Polly McLean ; with an introduction by Khaled Hosseini.
Publisher New York : Other Press, 2010, c2009.
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Description 141 p.
Notes Translation of: Syngué sabour.
Originally published in 2008.
Summary A resentful woman sits beside her brain-dead war soldier husband, in a retelling of a Persian folk tale about a patience stone that will bring about the apocalypse after exploding from absorbing too much hardship.
Subject Muslim women -- Fiction.
Islamic fundamentalism -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Genre Afghan fiction.
Other Names McLean, Polly, translator.
Other Titles Syngué sabour. English.