Book description
In this novel about peace in a time of war, debut author Jamaluddin Aram masterfully breathes life into the colourful characters of the town of Wazirabad, in early 1990s Kabul, Afghanistan.
It is the early 1990s, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Russian occupation has ended, and civil war has broken out,…
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1 author picked Nothing Good Happens in Wazirabad on Wednesday as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Aram’s book plunged me into a surreal landscape that felt weirdly normal—a quality familiar to me from dreams.
It’s set in a neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan, during the civil war of the mid-90s, but this isn’t like any war I’ve seen depicted: there are no armies with clashing interests.
No one knows who’s fighting or why. This war isn’t about anything, it’s just there, meaningless and ubiquitous, like rush hour traffic or pollution, something to get through as you go about your everyday life, be it collecting scorpions, having sex with the neighbor’s wife, creating beauty with calligraphy, whatever… Often…
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