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
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 ...
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The Opium Prince
by Jasmine Aimaq
Hardcover: Dec 2020
Paperback: Jan 2022
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.
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The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
by Paige Williams
Hardcover: Sep 2018
Paperback: Sep 2019
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.
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Vita Nostra
by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Hardcover: Nov 2018
Paperback: Sep 2019
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 ...
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Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
by Kate Harris
Hardcover: Aug 2018
Paperback: Jun 2019
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 ...
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When the Moon Is Low: A Novel
by Nadia Hashimi
Hardcover: Jul 2015
Paperback: Apr 2016
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 ...
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For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind
by Rosemary Mahoney
Hardcover: Jan 2014
Paperback: Mar 2015
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.
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In the Light of What We Know
by Zia Haider Rahman
Hardcover: Apr 2014
Paperback: Feb 2015
A bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.
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A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
by Qais Akbar Omar
Hardcover: Apr 2013
Paperback: Apr 2014
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.
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Hardcover: May 2013
Paperback: Feb 2014
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.
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In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari
by Fabio Geda
Hardcover: Aug 2011
Paperback: Jun 2012
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 ...
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The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Kim Barker
Hardcover: Mar 2011
Paperback: Mar 2012
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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