Tales of Afghanistan

Rivalling the magical narratives of her other books, Amina Shah’s Tales of Afghanistan is simple, elegant, and impossible to forget. Its tales, collected on Amina’s own travels in Afghanistan, are still told in teahouses and caravanserais, as they have been for a thousand years. Such stories form a powerful folklore, unique to Afghanistan, the result of centuries of being the crossroads of Central Asia. The volume contains such gems as The Leopard and the Jinn; The Amir Who was a Beggar; The Tailor and the Dev and The Well of Everlasting Life.