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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...
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): 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,...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul’s streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain. In his short life eleven-year-old Fawad has known more grief than most: his father and brother have been killed, his sister has been...
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Kabul
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Suraya Sadeed grew up in a peaceful Afghanistan. Following the Soviet invasion in 1979, she left America with her family, building a new life. But after a sudden tragedy, Suraya returned to Afghanistan for a visit that changed everything....
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen’s dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of...
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan – and fast – to keep her café and customers...
- Location(s): Kabul, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The novel begins in Kabul with the arrival of Burnes, an ambitious young Scot, eager to open up the country to the English. News of his arrival soon reaches the Amir, for whom “the arrival of the new European...
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