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Books set all or part in Central Asia including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan

Central Asia

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The World and All That It Holds

A Novel

by Aleksandar Hemon

Hardcover: Jan 2023 | Paperback: Jan 2024

Critics' Consensus:

The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It ...

The Opium Prince

by Jasmine Aimaq

Hardcover: Dec 2020 | Paperback: Jan 2022

Critics' Consensus:

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.

The Dinosaur Artist

Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy

by Paige Williams

Hardcover: Sep 2018 | Paperback: Sep 2019

Critics' Consensus:

New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams explores the riveting and perilous world of fossil collectors in this true tale of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia.

Vita Nostra

by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko

Hardcover: Nov 2018 | Paperback: Sep 2019

Critics' Consensus:

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel - a brilliant dark fantasy with "the potential to be a modern classic" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes ...

Lands of Lost Borders

A Journey on the Silk Road

by Kate Harris

Hardcover: Aug 2018 | Paperback: Jun 2019

Critics' Consensus:

A brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab Girl, and Wild that dares us to ...

When the Moon Is Low

A Novel

by Nadia Hashimi

Hardcover: Jul 2015 | Paperback: Apr 2016

Critics' Consensus:

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban ...

For the Benefit of Those Who See

Dispatches from the World of the Blind

by Rosemary Mahoney

Hardcover: Jan 2014 | Paperback: Mar 2015

Critics' Consensus:

Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school.

In the Light of What We Know

by Zia Haider Rahman

Hardcover: Apr 2014 | Paperback: Feb 2015

Critics' Consensus:

A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.

A Fort of Nine Towers

An Afghan Family Story

by Qais Akbar Omar

Hardcover: Apr 2013 | Paperback: Apr 2014

Critics' Consensus:

With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

Hardcover: May 2013 | Paperback: Feb 2014

Critics' Consensus:

A brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.

In the Sea There are Crocodiles

Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari

by Fabio Geda

Hardcover: Aug 2011 | Paperback: Jun 2012

Critics' Consensus:

When a ten-year-old boy's village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule, his mother shepherds the boy across the border into Pakistan but has to leave him there all alone to fend for himself. Thus begins Enaiat's remarkable and often punishing ...

The Taliban Shuffle

Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

by Kim Barker

Hardcover: Mar 2011 | Paperback: Mar 2012

Critics' Consensus:

A true-life Catch-22 set in the deeply dysfunctional countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan, by one of the region's longest-serving correspondents.

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