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I am trying to find two books. One is fiction: a short story collection and the other is non-fiction by the same author. Both featured their set, Central Asia, possibly multiple nations in the region where the author spent some time in his late teens to early twenties. The author is an American White Male who was initially an aid worker when he first travelled there but am not confident about my memories. He (oddly) emphasized in the foreword of both books that he had no knowledge of Russian or local languages of any place he had been to and no prospect of learning in future. Both books were released circa early to mid 00's--2003, 2004. I kept the author and his books in mind planning to read them soon but they vanished from the market as well as from shelves in libraries before I actually could go back to read them.
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Tom Bissell, perhaps? He seems to have done a non-fiction book about Central Asia, and a collection of short stories.
BINGO! It turned out those to be the titles that were long lost on me. Thanks so much. The author's career development afterwards was something that I had not imagined, by the way.
I will read his non-fiction first for its set: Uzbekistan.
