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Yoa mor yoa kesa

Author: Atal, Naqib Ahmed

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2024 | Pages: 68 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89030

Translated

Short stories

Insan ka hewaan?

Author: Sahak, Herak

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2021 | Pages: 93 | Origin: PAK | BA Seq Num: 81607

Social novel

Quarantine

Author: Tarkazay, Ayaz Allah

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2021 | Pages: 128 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 81596

Short stories

Bulbula

Author: Azmon, Lal Pacha

Genre: General Fiction

Year: 2023 | Pages: 311 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89060

General fiction

Zh wali sawalkara shoom

Author: Kozi, Najib Ullah

Genre: General Fiction

Year: 2024 | Pages: 40 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89038

Every day is filled with moments, some ordinary and others extraordinary, that can be transformed into compelling stories. While everyone tells tales, not everyone has the gift to write them. Writing is an art that draws inspiration from daily life, turning it into novels, short stories, and more.

This book explores two approaches to storytelling: one where the author is a character within the story, and another where the author remains an observer, guiding the relationships between characters. Ultimately, it's about connecting with readers and finding success in the craft of narrative literature

Dakati jank

Author: Khatak, Manbnam

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2023 | Pages: 124 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89054

This book delves into the brutal impact of a conflict where people from special houses - trained in unique customs, language, culture, and traditions - are pitted against the Taliban. These individuals, with their distinctive ways of life, are manipulated by powerful forces, leading to a devastating operation designed to eliminate them. Despite being presented under the guise of protecting the greater good, their safety is ignored, and they are subjected to an horrific genocide. Their homes, schools, graves, and leaders are destroyed, leaving them in the shadows of terror. The narrative highlights the cruel irony of a war fought for the interests of power, as those who fight are drawn into the cycle of violence and suffering, finding it increasingly difficult to escape the taste for war

Chene

Author: Azmoon, Lal Pacha

Genre: General Fiction

Year: 2023 | Pages: 159 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89062

General fiction

Da minizalo basant usool

Author: Shafaq, Elaf

Genre: General Fiction

Year: 2022 | Pages: 0 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89059

General fiction

ShIshak

Author: Tarkazay, Ayaz Allah

Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories

Year: 2023 | Pages: 128 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89044

Science fiction

Dazori d meeni pah para

Translated title: For the Love of a Son - One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child

Author: Sasson, Jean

Genre: Social Novel

Year: 2024 | Pages: 276 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89034

Translated

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.

She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life.

A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp, but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. But then her brutal husband stole him away far beyond his mother's reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while civil war and Taliban oppression raged back home in Afghanistan.

Set against a landscapelittered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of Princess, chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men

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