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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Central Asia

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  • Aleksandar Hemon
    Paperback: 01/30/2024
     
    The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―...
  • Jasmine Aimaq
    Paperback: 01/04/2022
     
    Jasmine Aimaq's stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching ...
  • Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
    Paperback: 09/05/2019
     
    The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel - a brilliant ...
  • Nadia Hashimi
    Paperback: 04/26/2016
     
    Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their ...
  • Anthony Marra
    Paperback: 02/04/2014
     
    A brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to ...
  • In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
    Fabio Geda
    Paperback: 06/12/2012
     
    When a ten-year-old boy's village in Afghanistan falls prey to Taliban rule, his mother shepherds the boy ...
  • Nadeem Aslam
    Paperback: 09/08/2009
     
    The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in ...

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