80 mots d'Afghanistan

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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9782360572854
Collection: 80 mots du monde
12 x 18 cm
Weight: 190 gr
Pages: 191
First publication: 31/03/2021

80 words, which are so many stories that tell about Afghanistan, mostly in Dari language, the Persian of Afghanistan, but with many references to Pashto, the second official language of the country. Through these words - which Etienne Gille chose because they are the ones who seem to him to cover best all the realities of Afghan life, and which they resonate with his long experience of Afghanistan - are approached the family ties, social relations, cooking (with all the dishes generously served to the host you want to honor), the different arts, games, in short everything that makes the originality and charm of a country. The problems are not evacuated: poverty, drugs, the condition of women, struggles and rivalries between clans or ethnic groups. Each time, Etienne Gille's gaze is marked with lucidity, but also with understanding and tolerance. We have here a precious vademecum to better understand the Afghans.

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CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Etienne Gille

Etienne Gille was a mathematics teacher at Esteqlal high school, the Franco-Afghan high school from Kabul. He is one of the founders of the AFRANE Association (Amitié Franco-Afghan) of which he was until very recently the president. He performed numerous missions in Afghanistan and is director of publication and editor chief of the journal Les Nouvelles d'Afghanistan.

Atiq Rahimi

Atiq Rahimi, born February 26, 1962 in Kabul, Afghanistan, is a novelist and director of dual French and Afghan nationality. He received the Goncourt Prize on November 10, 2008 for his novel Syngué sabour. Stone of patience. After applying for political asylum in France, granted in 1984, he obtained his doctorate in audiovisual technology at the Sorbonne. In 2000, he published his first novel, Terre et Cendres. He adapted it to the cinema by directing his first feature film, Terre et Cendres, co-written with Iranian filmmaker Kambuzia Partovi, presented in the “Un certain regard” section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival3, where he won the Regard vers l 'to come up. In the meantime, he released a second novel, The Thousand Houses of Dreams and Terror, published in 2002, and directed two documentaries, We shared bread and salt and Afghanistan, an impossible state?

COLLECTION

80 mots du monde

ISSN : 2650-4790

The collection "80 words of the world" offers a journey to the heart of a country through the words that count in the languages of the women and men who live there.

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