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The Bookseller of Kabul

I am reading Caravans by James Mitchner

Afganistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep

Heather wrote: "The Bookseller of Kabul"

2167047 The Bookseller of Kabul. Ironic, I think. You'd think the bookseller would be a open-minded man at work and at home. But turns out he isn't very different from everybody else...

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner

Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil

I read all of the books listed above, and after spending a year in northern Afghanistan at a remote outpost with the British Army, decided to write write my own novel-- Farishta (Dari for 'angel'). It's the story of a mid-career female American diplomat sent to Afghanistan against her will in 2005. Farishta just won the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel award and will be published by Penguin Books in August 2011. You can read a 60 page excerpt and some reviews at Amazon.com. I hope you enjoy it. Pat McArdle

Unfortunately you won't be able to read my novel until it is published by Penguin Books next August (2011). You can read the first sixty pages --and pre-order a copy if the excerpt grabs you--at Amazon.com. Just type in my name and the book title 'Farishta'.

Mcardlepl wrote: "Unfortunately you won't be able to read my novel until it is published by Penguin Books next August (2011). You can read the first sixty pages --and pre-order a copy if the excerpt grabs you--at A..."

The excerpt was not available at Amazon! I just looked for it.

Go to this page:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images...

--then click where it says read an extended excerpt.

Here is the direct link to the excerpt:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images...

Thank you, Mcardlepl.

Jason Elliot's An Unexpected Light: Travels In Afghanistan is a fantastic non-fiction book, also enjoyable are A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, by Eric Newby, The Carpet Wars, by Christopher Kremmer and Tea with the Taliban by Ian D. Robinson (it is not on Goodreads for some reason).

I see Tea with the Taliban by a different author. Is that the one you're suggesting?

Thanks Osho, but it is not. The one I refer is by a NZ author who also wrote You Must Die Once and Gantsara: Alone Across Mongolia, both excellent books.

Okay, thanks. I manually added the book to the Goodreads database.