Books set in Afghanistan (51)
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La Perle et la coquille by Nadia Hashimi FR
Country: Asia / 
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
« Ce magnifique conte familial reflète à merveille les combats des femmes afghanes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui. » Khaled Hosseini Kaboul, 2007 : les Talibans font la loi dans les rues. Avec un père toxicomane et sans frère, Rahima et ses sœurs ne peuvent quitter la maison. Leur seul espoir réside dans la tradition des bacha posh, qui permettra à la jeune Rahima de se travestir jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit en âge de se marier. Elle jouit alors d’une liberté qui va la transformer à jamais, comme le fit, un siècle plus tôt, son ancêtre Shekiba. Les destinées de ces deux femmes se font écho, et permettent ... continue
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La piedra de la paciencia by Atiq Rahimi ES
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
En la mitología persa, sangue sabur, «la piedra de la paciencia», es una piedra mágica a la que uno le cuenta sus desgracias, sus sufrimientos, sus miserias, para confiarle todo lo que no nos atrevemos a revelar a los demás; La piedra escucha, absorbe como una esponja todas las palabras, todos los secretos, hasta que un buen día explota; Y ese día, uno queda liberado. En esta novela, localizada «en alguna parte de Afganistán, o en cualquier otro lugar», la piedra de la paciencia es un hombre tendido en un colchón en el suelo, en estado vegetativo a causa de una bala alojada en la nuca. A su la... continue
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Laberinto de sueño y angustia by Atiq Rahimi ES
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
El Farhad, el enamorado, el amigo, el hijo, el hermano, el esposo y el padre, víctima de una represión injustificada y atroz, recuerda y revive en su agonía sus amores, temores y desesperanzas. En este largo delirio nos descubre con magistrales imágenes y minuciosas descripciones sus sentimientos, deseos y luchas, bajo el terror y la angustia provocados por una opresión que sólo conduce a la muerte y a la destrucción. Su deseo de quedarse con los que ama se confunde con el anhelo de escapar hacia un lugar en el que los cañones de los kalashnikov no le apunten a cada paso y en el que la amenaza... continue
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Les cerfs-volants de Kaboul by Khaled Hosseini FR
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
En plus de nous révéler l'Afghanistan contemporain, le romancier réussit une très belle histoire d'amour en ce lieu difficile. [SDM].
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Letters to My Daughters by Fawzia Koofi EN
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
In the vein of Infidel comes this spellbinding memoir of survival and courage from Afghanistan's most popular female politician. On the day Fawzia Koofi was born, her mother set her under the blazing Afghan sun to die. She was the nineteenth child of twenty-three in a family with seven wives, and her mother did not want another daughter. Despite severe burns that lasted into her teenage years, Fawzia survived and became the favourite child. In Letters to My Daughters , Fawzia tells her remarkable life story. Fawzia 's father was an incorruptible politician strongly attached to Afghan tradition... continue
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My Forbidden Face : Growing Up Under the Taliban : a Young Woman's Story by Latifa, Chékéba Hachemi EN
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa had a conventional childhood. Then, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. And from that moment, Latifa, just sixteen, became a prisoner in her own home. The simplest and most basic freedoms were forbidden. She was forced to put on a chadri, the state-mandated uniform that covered her entire body. Disbelief at having to hide herself was soon replaced by fear, the fear of being whipped or stoned like women she'd seen. My Forbidden Face provides a moving and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful hon... continue
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Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday by Jamaluddin Aram EN
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
WINNER OF THE RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION In this novel about peace in a time of war, debut author Jamaluddin Aram masterfully breathes life into the colourful characters of the town of Wazirabad, in early 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan. It is the early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Russian occupation has ended, and civil war has broken out, but life roars on in full force in the working-class town of Wazirabad. A rash of burglaries has stolen people’s sleep. Fifteen-year-old Aziz awakens from a dark dream that prompts him to plant shards of glass along the wall surro... continue
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O caçador de pipas by Khaled Hosseini PT
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Publicado em mais de 70 países e com a marca de mais de 2 milhões de exemplares vendidos apenas no Brasil, o aclamado livro O caçador de pipas, romance de estreia de Khaled Hosseini, está de volta em nova edição. O romance narra a tocante história da amizade entre Amir e Hassan, dois meninos que vivem no Afeganistão da década de 1970. Durante um campeonato de pipas, Amir perde a chance de defender Hassan, num episódio que marca a vida dos dois amigos para sempre. Vinte anos mais tarde, quando Amir está estabelecido nos Estados Unidos, após ter abandonado um Afeganistão tomado pelos soviéticos,... continue
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Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot by Niloofar Rahmani, R. D. Sykes EN
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Niloofar Rahmani was born in 1991 in Kabul, Afghanistan, just a few years after the Soviets left, and during the rise of the Taliban her father took his young family to Pakistan, where they lived for nine years as refugees. Then, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the international coalition's invasion, the Rahmani family returned to their home in Kabul. In 2010, for the first time since the Soviets, Afghanistan allowed females to join the military, and Niloofar entered Afghanistan's military academy. However, the professed openness of the new Afghan military could not surmount centuries of ... continue