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Read The Kite Runner? Interested in Afghanistan? Try some of these books to find out more about Afghanistan and its people.
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The Breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
Published 2001 by Groundwood Books
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In Afghanistan, a country controlled by the Taliban, a radical religious faction that allows only men to work and forbids women to go to school, work, or even outside their homes without a male escort, a courageous young woman pretends to be a boy in war-torn Kabul in order to support her family. More...
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Parvana's Journey
by Deborah Ellis
Published 2002 by Groundwood Books
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In this sequel to The Breadwinner, 13-year-old Parvana and other Afghan children search the countryside for their missing parents.
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Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
by Said Hyder Akbar
Published 2005 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Building on two acclaimed radio documentaries aired on "This American Life," this intimate and riveting chronicle is delivered by an extraordinarily courageous Afghan-American teenager coming of age in post 9/11 Afghanistan. More...
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
by Deborah Rodriguez
Published 2007 by Random House
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In the tradition of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," Rodriguez tells the story of the beauty school she founds in the middle of the Afghan city of Kabul, and lifts the veil of secrecy about the vibrant women who were her students there. More...
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Lonely Planet Afghanistan
by Paul Clammer
Published 2007 by Lonely Planet Publications
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Lonely Planet's first stand-alone guide to Afghanistan, this book is the ticket to no-nonsense travel. Far-reaching coverage of the sights--from the modern to the ancient--is complemented by a food guide, useful language section and glossary, and thorough accommodation coverage. More...
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Making It Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee
by Dial Books
Published 2005 by Dial Books
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In this inspiring collection, children living all over the world speak about being forced to flee from their homes as refugees.
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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban - A Young Woman's Story
by Latifa
Published 2002 by Miramax Books
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This moving and personal account of life under the Taliban regime, written with painful honesty and clarity, describes Latifa's ordered world as it falls apart in the name of fanaticism.
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Shattered: Stories of Children and War
by Jennifer Armstrong
Published 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
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As bullets ring and bombs are dropped, children watch- mostly from the sidelines, but occasionally in the direct line of fire.
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The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
by Farah Ahmedi
Published 2005 by Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America.
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To Afghanistan and Back
by Ted Rall
Published 2003 by ComicsLit
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Controversial cartoonist Ted Rall went to the Afghan front to report for the "Village Voice." This collection includes his articles as well as a graphic novel of his impressions. Did we win? Was not oil the real reason for going there? More...
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Under the Persimmon Tree
by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Published 2005 by Farrar Straus Giroux
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Left alone in Afghanistan, young Najmah hopes to find her father and brother, who were conscripted by the Taliban, and she begins the perilous journey to cross the border into Pakistan. There, an American woman teaches refugee children under the persimmon tree in her garden. More...
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Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom
by Zoya
Published 2002 by William Morrow & Company
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Zoya's Story is a young woman's searing account of her clandestine war of resistance against the Taliban and religious fanaticism at the risk of her own life.
Several DVDs provide interesting views of Afghanistan:
- The Beauty Academy of Kabul
- Daughters of Afghanistan
- Osama
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