Magical realism books from Afghanistan
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If you are into magical realism here are some magical realism books from Afghanistan for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Above Us the Milky Way by Fowzia Karimi EN
Country: Asia / Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Description:
Debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything & everyone beloved & familiar. Old family photographs & lush watercolor paintings based on medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories/stories of the war dead, & fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration & immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience love & wonder amidst destruction & loss, & how to create beauty out of horror.