I’m a big fan of fiction set in the Indian subcontinent and have a sizeable reading history with these novels, so cracking this novel open felt almost familiar, even though a) I haven’t read it before; and b) its set in Afghanistan rather than the subcontinent proper.  I had been putting this one off in part because the novels I have read that have been set in Afghanistan tend towards the bleak- totally understandable given the events that have shaped the country in the last […]