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- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture—from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th/21st Century
“My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream” A woman’s fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1970s
The 12th century minaret of Djam is one of Afghanistan’s most celebrated treasures, a magnificent symbol of the powerful Ghorid Empire that once stretched from Iran to India. The second tallest brick minaret in the world, Djam lies in...
The Pearl that Broke its Shell
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2007 looking back
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima...
- Location(s): Herat, Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s to 2000s
At times this can be a harrowing book, in which the author paints brutal scenes but it always retains, especiallythrough the characters of Mariam and Laila, a humanity, tremendous spirit and love. They overcome the challenges that have faced...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Qais Akbar Omar was eleven when a brutal civil war engulfed Kabul. For Qais, it brought an abrupt end to a childhood filled with kites and cousins in his grandfather’s garden: one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan...
- Location(s): Isle of Skye, Afghanistan, Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contempoary
Time for the Dead is a gripping crime novel by Lin Anderson and sees forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod discover that a terrifying war is unfolding on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots...
- Location(s): Kabul, Paris, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one… Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of...
- Location(s): Kabul, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s to 2000s
The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini’s deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s,...
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Eastern Europe, Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous cable – CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? –...
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