The internationally bestselling novel about a little café in Kabul, and the five extraordinary women who meet there - as if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner. If you've read and loved this novel, look out for its brilliant sequel, Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul!
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together.
SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan - and fast - to keep her café and customers safe.
YAZMINA, a young pregnant woman stolen from her remote village and now abandoned on Kabul's violent streets.
CANDACE, a wealthy American who has finally left her husband for her Afghan lover, the enigmatic Wakil.
ISABEL, a determined journalist with a secret that might keep her from the biggest story of her life.
And HALAJAN, the sixty-year-old den mother, whose long-hidden love affair breaks all the rules.
As these five women discover there's more to one another than meets the eye, they form a unique bond that will for ever change their lives and the lives of many others.
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul is the heart-warming and life-affirming fiction debut from the author of the bestselling memoir The Kabul Beauty School.
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[It was a vibrant, blue-skied Afghan morning, the kind that made Yazmina stop too loosen her scarf and tilt her face to the sun]***
(Sphere, 13 April 2013, first published 1 January 2011, 375 pages, paperback, A Year Of @EpicReads 2019, a book about a culture that isn't your own, bought from @AmazonUK)
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I bought this book years ago on impulse when Amazon was doing a 3 for £10 paperback sale. I actually forgot I even had it until I was looking for a title for this category. The cover made me think the book fell into the romantic fiction or chick lit category. It doesn't which was a relief because I don't really like either category. The book has a blend of light and dark moments. At times, it's easy to think the café is in any western town until Sunny and her friends and customers are given a stark reminder of the violence and danger around them. I really enjoyed the book. The women are great. The café is perfect back-drop for the various trials and challenges they go through. I was pleasantly surprised by this book.
