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- 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...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in war-torn Kabul, a harrowing yet tender novel – Bend it Like Beckham in a burqua – about one woman’s courage and guile in the face of tyranny. Rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in Kabul, is summoned to...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 2003
A murdered man. A stolen artefact. A search for justice in a city where violence and corruption rule… 2003. Kabul has become a frontier city, Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy struggling with crime and corruption as NATO coalition troops, gangs and...
Farewell to The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2021
Kabul, August 2021 Sunny Tedder is back in her beloved coffee shop. After eight years away, she’s thrilled to reunite with her Kabul ‘family’: Yazmina now runs a pair of women’s shelters from the old cafe, and dreams of...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women’s rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Her husband is killed by the Taliban, now Rukhsaar is a widow with a ten-year-old child, Masih, in a land where the colour drains from faces when they hear, “It’s a girl.” Reminiscing about her past, Rukhsaar and her...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
In August 2021, as the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul, twenty-one women writers in Afghanistan came online in their WhatsApp chat group: they asked what news others had heard and if everyone was safe. These women had been...
Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2006
**Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021** **Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020** One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001
In 2001, Kabul is a place of possibility as people fling off years of repressive Taliban rule. This hopeful chaos brings together American aid worker Liv Stoellner and Farida Basra, an educated Pakistani woman still adjusting to her arranged...
- Location(s): Kabul, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/2008
Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan’s thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan’s progressive president, and Sitara’s beloved...
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