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By Aziz Hakimi
Kabul Blues is a short story collection by Aziz Hakimi, whose literary voice has been shaped by decades of living through — and reporting on — one of the world’s most turbulent regions.
Short Stories
My name is perhaps Reza, or perhaps Mohammad. Call me Mohammad Reza, it'll do. My trade and occupation is business, not commerce exactly; well, let both of them go to...
First the wretched pandemic, then the indifference of Iranians towards wearing masks, and finally the complete unemployment of us genetic engineers following the birth of Hana, the first cloned goat,...
It is seven in the evening on a Sunday, the tenth or eleventh of July, and I am still thirsty. There is a smell of wet sulphur and iron filings....
As a family, we've never liked doctors. You could say we have a blood feud with them. The roots of the hatred go back to the night my great-great-grandfather fell...
When the corpse-cleansing ladies brought Mum in and laid her on the slab and pulled back the cloth from her face, Auntie fainted. Nazi, the wife of Gholam the flower...
By Aziz Hakimi
I have been awake for nineteen days straight. I counted the pebbles in the Styrofoam cup this morning before I come to the shore and lie down on this smooth...
