by Assem Akram
(Fatal Ochre ) The story takes place in Afghanistan during the war against the Soviets. On a sunny after-noon, Temur, nested up on a tall tree overlooking his village, is quietly napping when a deafening grumbling suddenly awakens him. It’s a military column. In no time, the entire population of Deh-Borjak is annihilated. A strange blood collection is carried out and immediately dispatched by helicopter to a mysterious man - "The Wolf". Temur is literally petrified by what he has just witnessed: why them, why him, why is he still alive? Becoming a Resistant by no will of his own, from Deh-Borjak to Kabul, from the eagle-nest base in the mountains to Peshawar, from an illusory paradise all the way to Paris, Temur is in turn a victim, an actor and a witness of events beyond his control. But he is not the only one to be overwhelmed. The Red Army’s expeditionary forces also fall victim of mysterious phenomena for which Scientific Marxism had not prepared them Through the captivating advent
Roald Dahl
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