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by Amy Waldman
Published Oct 2020
Read ReviewsFor readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission about the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsKhaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations
by Qais Akbar Omar
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsWith 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.
by Samuel Shimon
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsAn exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine.
by Nadeem Aslam
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsThe author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novelat once lyrical and blisteringabout war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsAt once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
by Rawi Hage
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsTwo young friends caught in Lebanons civil war must choose their futures: To stay in the city and consolidate power through crime, or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known.
by Ismail Kadare
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsIn this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.
by Orhan Pamuk
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsA spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings for love, art, power, and God set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order; by the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature.
by Asne Seierstad
Published Oct 2004
Read Reviews'An admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand. Seierstad writes of individuals but her message is larger' -- Washington Post Book World.
by Khaled Hosseini
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
by Ahmed Rashid
Published Mar 2001
Read ReviewsThe Taliban is brought into sharp focus in this enormously interesting and revealing book.
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