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Zama laas

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Translated title: My Hand

Author: Azmoon, Lal Pacha

Genre: Thriller / Crime

Year: 2021 | Pages: 211 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 81643

Thriller

Naashna laik

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Translated title: Unknown Letter

Author: Khafiq, Stephen

Genre: Romance

Year: 2024 | Pages: 70 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89035

Translated

This contemporary translated narrative explores deep emotional attachments, unexpected bonds, and intricate personal relationships. Centered around the impact of an anonymous piece of correspondence, the story tracks the psychological and romantic evolution of characters navigating complex feelings. The compact volume highlights themes of secrecy, longing, and interpersonal discovery within a dramatic framework

Zakhmi murghi

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Author: Jamal, Sardar

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2021 | Pages: 140 | Origin: PAK | BA Seq Num: 81604

Short stories

Da Noor Muhammad Taraki Dastani Kulyat

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Translated title: Collected Fiction of Noor Muhammad Taraki

Author: Taraki, Noor Muhammad

Genre: Short Stories / Social Fiction

Year: 2025 | Pages: 772 | Origin: PAK | BA Seq Num: 93831

Da Noor Muhammad Taraki Dastani Kulyat brings together the fiction of Afghan Pashto writer Noor Muhammad Taraki, including work from a literary career that encompassed short stories and novels. Taraki's fiction draws extensively on the lives of ordinary Afghans, particularly farmers, labourers and poorer communities, portraying social inequality, hardship and the everyday realities of Afghan society through realist storytelling and the language of ordinary people. His short fiction began appearing in literary periodicals from the 1930s, while his longer works include novels such as Bang Musafiri, Spin and Sangasar. Across his fiction, Taraki examines social relationships, poverty, injustice and tensions within traditional society, combining portraits of individual lives with a broader picture of Afghanistan during a period of considerable social change. This collected edition brings together an important body of early modern Pashto prose fiction

Hemangoi za wai

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Author: Zarwaan, Asmat

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2021 | Pages: 149 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 84643

Short stories

Gul Khan

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Author: Taizai, Sher Zaman

Genre: Social Fiction

Year: 2021 | Pages: 222 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89046

Gul Khan is a social novel examining Pashtun life, customs and traditions through the experiences of its characters and community. Written at a time when the modern Pashto novel was still developing, the story explores aspects of traditional society that the author believed needed reform, contrasting constructive values with customs and attitudes that could hold individuals and communities back. Through its portrayal of everyday Pashtun life, the novel considers ignorance, social convention and the possibility of change, while reflecting the cultural environment in which its characters live. First published in 1969, Gul Khan became one of Sher Zaman Taizai's best-known works and an early contribution to the development of the Pashto novel

Darwahola nibarah

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Author: Kargar, Muhammad Akbar

Genre: Mystery

Year: 2022 | Pages: 130 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89064

Mystery

Neenahk

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Translated title: Doll

Author: Roghani, Hayat

Genre: Social Fiction / Fiction of LGBTQ+ Interest

Year: 2025 | Pages: 207 | Origin: PAK | BA Seq Num: 93830

Neenahk (Doll) is a Pashto social novel by Hayat Roghani focusing on the lives and experiences of transgender people within Pashtun society. Through its exploration of a community often pushed to the margins of social life, the novel addresses questions of identity, dignity, prejudice and social acceptance, bringing experiences rarely represented in Pashto fiction into the centre of its narrative. Regarded as an early Pashto novel to take the third-gender community as its principal subject, Neenahk uses fiction to examine the difficulties faced by people whose identities place them outside conventional social expectations and the attitudes of the wider society around them

ShIshak

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Author: Tarakzai, Ayazullah

Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories

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

Science fiction

Hi Hi Watan

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Translated title: Alas, My Homeland!

Author: Arzhak, M. Zahir

Genre: Short Stories

Year: 2024 | Pages: 0 | Origin: PAK | BA Seq Num: 93806

Short Stories

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