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- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Lashkar Gah, Cornwall, Swat Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The hand of friendship can span a thousand miles… Pakistan Among the almond orchards of the Swat Valley, Zamir tends goats with his son, Raza. He must make a heartbreaking decision if he is to protect his youngest child...
- Location(s): Manhattan, Afghanistan, Japan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Real. Invisible. Devastating. And it’s taking New York by storm. With its insatiable hunger for fast food, easy fixes and life lived at breakneck speed, the city that never sleeps is hurtling towards disaster. Now John Wyse, an ordinary New...
The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Europe
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2016
In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Jasmine Aimaq’s stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl’s tragic death. Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero, Daniel Sajadi...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Lahore, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary and looking back
In this contemporary murder mystery, an estranged mother and daughter urgently need to reconnect and navigate a world of Sufi story traditions to catch a killer, and to save each other. There is a dead woman in the library....
The Underground Girls Of Kabul
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
An Afghan woman’s life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A powerful novel of enduring friendship set amid the terror and chaos of present-day Afghanistan. Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Peshawar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman,...
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