Short stories
آوازی از میان قرنها
Not translated into English
Rahnaward Zaryab · 1983
Synopsis
A collection of short stories in Dari Persian, whose title translates as Une voix à travers les siècles. The obituaries of its author cite it first among his collections, before L'Homme de la montagne, Un ami de la ville lointaine and Images et pensées, among the hundred or so short stories he wrote.
Context
The volume brings together short stories by a writer who has been publishing narratives since the sixties and will leave more than a hundred, alongside several novels and a film screenplay in 1980. It belongs to the first part of his work, before exile, in the period of his literary and official responsibilities in Kabul. No French or English translation of the collection has appeared; two of the author's stories appear in an English anthology of Afghan stories published in 2002.
Who it is for
Short stories, never translated; reading reserved for those who read Dari, and illuminated by a little history of Kabul.
Prizes and reception
No prize found for the collection. The obituaries of 2020 cite it first among its author's books.