Writer Atiq Rahimi: “There is no hope among those fleeing Kabul, only the need to survive”

“But here everything is destroyed. Everything is earth, everything is ashes… Your hometown must be found in the memory of the earth and ashes », he wrote returning to Kabul almost twenty years ago, after the fall of the Taliban regime. With a camera he walked through the alleys of the wounded city. And he was looking for another Kabul, disappeared. Left Afghanistan in 1983, the writer and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi, Goncourt Prize with the novel Stone of patience (Einaudi), managed to return in 2002.