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- Location(s): Afghanistan, Peshawar
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
An espionage thriller set in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. When a shipment of Stinger missiles disappears, a CIA officer becomes entangled in an unusual triangle with a journalist and her former lover, now an elusive mujahideen chief. These characters lead us...
- 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): Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Post 9/11
From the author of Maps for Lost Lovers comes a searing, exquisitely written novel set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 – a story of war, of one family’s losses, and of the simplest, most enduring...
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...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A young woman prays at her husband’s bedside as he lies in a coma with a bullet in his neck. From outside come the sounds of tanks, gunshots, screaming and, most terrifying of all, silence. Inside, her two frightened...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Iraq, Jerusalem
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Mid 1930s
In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana–the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the river Amu Darya which forms part of the border between Afghanistan...
- 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): Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
This book is set in the heart of the stateless stretch of mountains where the borders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran meet: an area now in the news and seen as lawless, and rulled by tribal Taliban, but pre...
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