Afghanistan

Description
Ideas for the July-Sept 2018 theme read of the Reading Globally group.
1
Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul
de Khaled Hosseini
52,890 membres
1,300 critiques
4.2
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Afghan-American writer.
2
Le Libraire de Kaboul
de Åsne Seierstad
5,613 membres
167 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Norwegian journalist's account of living in Kabul.
3
Les hirondelles de Kaboul
de Yasmina Khadra
1,301 membres
69 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Algerian/French writer. Novel is set in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
4
La perle et la coquille
de Nadia Hashimi
1,057 membres
78 critiques
4.1
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: American novelist of Afghan heritage.
5
Syngué Sabour. La pierre de patience
de Atiq Rahimi
578 membres
40 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Afghan writer who fled to France in the 1980s.
6
La vaine attente
de Nadeem Aslam
482 membres
20 critiques
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: British-Pakistani writer; novel is set in Afghanistan.
7
The Wandering Falcon
de Jamil Ahmad
442 membres
46 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Pakistani author who worked at the embassy in Kabul. Book is set in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
8
La fille du conteur
de Saira Shah
361 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: British journalist of Afghan heritage; worked as a reporter in Peshawar during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
9
The Taliban Cricket Club
de Timeri N. Murari
193 membres
13 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany
10
The Watch
de Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
174 membres
11 critiques
4
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Indian writer's interpretation of Antigone, set in Afghanistan under US occupation.
11
The Honey Thief: Fiction
de Najaf Mazari
68 membres
4 critiques
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Collaboration between an Afghan refugee and and Australian writer. The stories in the volume draw on oral narratives.
12
Risiko: Roman
de Steffen Kopetzky
46 membres
1 critique
½ 3.3
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Historical novel about the German expedition to Afghanistan during WWI.
13
Above Us the Milky Way
de Fowzia Karimi
34 membres
1 critique
½ 4.5
Member
spiphany
14
The Gifts of the State and Other Stories: New Writing from Afghanistan
de Adam Klein
15 membres
4 critiques
½ 4.6
Member
spiphany
15
Gott im Reiskorn
de Mariam Kühsel-Hussaini
7 membres
Member
spiphany
16
Buskaschi oder Der Teppich meiner Mutter: Roman
de Massum Faryar
4 membres
1 critique
4
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Afghan writer who came to Germany in his 20s and writes in German
17
Mille Soleils Splendides
de Khaled Hosseini
30,386 membres
896 critiques
½ 4.3
18
Places in Between
de Rory Stewart
2,423 membres
77 critiques
3.9
19
Route d'Oxiane
de Robert Byron
1,234 membres
13 critiques
3.9
20
An unexpected light : travels in Afghanistan
de Jason Elliot
645 membres
9 critiques
4.1
21
Visage volé. Avoir vingt ans à Kaboul
de Latifa
641 membres
21 critiques
½ 3.7
22
When the Moon Is Low
de Nadia Hashimi
420 membres
26 critiques
3.9
23
A House Without Windows
de Nadia Hashimi
354 membres
16 critiques
3.8
24
Earth and Ashes
de Atiq Rahimi
276 membres
21 critiques
3.9
25
Born Under a Million Shadows
de Andrea Busfield
246 membres
32 critiques
3.9
26
Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep
de Siba Shakib
224 membres
6 critiques
3.8
27
A Woman among Warlords : The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
de Malalaï Joya
219 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
28
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story
de Qais Akbar Omar
212 membres
9 critiques
½ 4.5
29
A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan
de Nelofer Pazira
190 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.7
30
A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
de Atiq Rahimi
154 membres
15 critiques
½ 3.5
31
Maudit soit Dostoïevski
de Atiq Rahimi
107 membres
4 critiques
3.9
32
I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
de Seamus Murphy
88 membres
3 critiques
½ 4.6
33
Kara Kush
de Idries Shah
79 membres
3 critiques
3
34
In My Father's Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate
de SAIMA WAHAB
67 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.6
35
Poetry of the Taliban (Columbia/Hurst)
de Alex Strick van Linschoten
30 membres
2 critiques
3.1
36
Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry
de Sayd Majrouh
25 membres
2.8
37
Afghan Caravan
de Safia Shah
21 membres
2 critiques
4
39
La Plaine de Caïn
de Spôjmaï Zariâb
10 membres
4.2
40
Le pianiste afghan
de Chabname Zariâb
4 membres
41
Les figues rouges de Mazar
de Mohammadi Mohammad Hossein
2 membres
42
L'insolente de kaboul
de Chékéba Hachemi
2 membres