These are experiences that all of us have had at some point, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, culture.
They are basically about the choices we make in life and the consequences of those choices. You do not need to be Afghan, or even know anything about Afghanistan, to connect with the stories. At the end of the day, my books touch on universal human themes. The country's tortured past slowly has been a steady backdrop, though to a far lesser degree in And the Mountains Echoed. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical. I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. What has happened in Afghanistan has an impact on the lives of my characters, and so, in part at least, the writing of my novels has necessitated the writing of recent Afghan history as well, or at least enough of it to provide a credible world for my characters to inhabit. My novels, by virtue of being set in modern day Afghanistan, touch on the toil and struggles of the last thirty plus years in that country. How important is place to the stories you want to tell? What do you want readers to take away about your homeland? You have introduced the world to life in Afghanistan through stunning descriptions and rich characters.
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