Pashtun Books

Browse a small preview of recent titles from our Pashtun adult fiction catalogue, curated for libraries and institutional supply.

Pashtun fiction helps libraries broaden provision for Pashto-speaking readers with language-specific titles and community-focused reading.

Collection Support

Build Your Collection

You can request an Account to fully explore all our booklists, or ask us to prepare a tailored Pashtun selection for you.

Request Account Request Booklist

Sample Titles

Naashna laik

Author: Khafiq, Stephen

Genre: Romance

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

Translated

Romantic novel

Yadona parharona

Author: Abdul Waqeel

Genre: General Fiction

Year: 2021 | Pages: 112 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89057

General fiction

Kemyagar

Translated title: The Alchemist

Author: Coelho, Paulo

Genre: Fantasy / Adventure

Year: 2024 | Pages: 158 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89047

Translated

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different - and far more satisfying - than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams

Da ibne Fatoma safarnama

Translated title: The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

Author: Mahfouz, Naguib

Genre: Social Novel / Classics

Year: 2025 | Pages: 171 | Origin: AFG | BA Seq Num: 89051

Translated

In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through a series of very different lands - realms where the moon is worshipped, where marriage does not exist, where kings are treated like gods, and where freedom toleration, and justice are alternately held as the highest goods. All of these places, however, are inevitably marred by the specter of war, and Ibn Fattouma finds himself continually driven onward, ever seeking. Like the protagonists of A Pilgrim's Progress and Gulliver's Travels, Naguib Mahfouz's hero travels not through any recognizable historical landscape, but through timeless aspects of human possibility

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