Earth and ashes by Atiq Rahimi

Author:Atiq Rahimi [Rahimi, Atiq]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Novel
ISBN: 9781590513453
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2002-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

He buries his face under your clothes. As if he wants to put an ear to your chest to listen for some sound from within. He hears nothing and shuts his eyes. Inside himself everything must make a sound. If only you could enter inside him and tell him the story of Baba Kharkash . . .

Your wife's unsteady voice reaches your ears: 'Once upon a time there was a man named Baba Kharkash . . .'

You find yourself standing on the large branch of a jujube tree, stark naked. You've climbed up it to shake down jujubes for Yassin. At the base of the tree, Yassin is gathering the fruit. Without being able to help it, you start to urinate. Crying, Yassin moves away from the bottom of the tree and sits at the base of another. He empties the apples out of your scarf and replaces them with his jujubes, then ties up the bundle again. Digging into the ground with his small hands, he finds a door near the surface, secured with a big padlock. He opens the lock with a jujube stone and crawls underground.

'Yassin, where are you going? Wait! I'm coming down!'

Yassin doesn't hear your shouts and the door shuts behind him. You try to climb down from the tree, but the tree grows bigger and taller. You fall from the tree, but you don't hit the ground . . .

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