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That is to say, books set or partially set in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan. Fiction or nonfiction is okay.
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The Opium Prince
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Green on Blue
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No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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Farishta
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Veiled Freedom (Veiled Freedom #1)
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The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of Dostum, the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces to Topple the Taliban Regime
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Leopards Kill
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War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier
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The Warlord's Son
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Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son
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West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story
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Tamim Ansary (Goodreads Author)
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Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future
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Winter in Kandahar (Stone Waverly Trilogy #1)
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Afghan Cuisine
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Nafisa Sekandari (Goodreads Author)
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Kazakhstan: Nomadic Routes from Caspian to Altai
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Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
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Kevin Sites (Goodreads Author)
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Krysia: A Polish Girl's Stolen Childhood During World War II
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The Afghan Campaign
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Packing Up: Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
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BORAT: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism
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Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
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Greetings From Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country
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Land Beyond the River: The Untold Story of Central Asia
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The Modern Uzbeks: From the 14th Century to the Present : A Cultural History
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Camel Bells
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Jameela
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Rukhsana Khan (Goodreads Author)
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Afghan Rumour Bazaar: Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life of the Absurd
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All That's Left to Tell
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Mountain Wolf
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Rosanne Hawke (Goodreads Author)
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Jun 23, 2012 01:24PM
The Blood of Flowers and Rooftops of Tehran are both set in Iran, not any of the "-stan" countries. Presumably, Cracking India is set in India.
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@Emma,Cracking India seems to be about the partition of India, which certainly involves Pakistan, so I'll leave it, but I'll delete The Blood of Flowers and Rooftops of Tehran.
A list of books set in countries ending with just "an" would be longer, needing to include Bhutan, Azerbaijan, Japan, Sudan and South Sudan. To say nothing of countries that just have "an" somewhere in their names! Andorra, Germany, Dominican Republic, anything with "land" in it...
What happened when you tried to add it?I had no difficulty adding it.
Is Kurdistan ok to put on the list? Technically I think it's a region, not a country.
in the country of men by hisham matar should be on the list.he is a great libyan novelist!.
Danial wrote: "in the country of men by hisham matar should be on the list.he is a great libyan novelist!."
As it says in the desciption, and as far as I can tell, it is not set in one of the -stan countries?
oh okay , it is actually set in libya!.
Danial wrote: "oh okay , it is actually set in libya!."I thought so
oh okay , so what do you like to read?.
oh okay , so what do you like to read?.
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