{"id":24355,"count":12,"description":"Five Books has a wide range of interviews dedicated to books about Afghanistan or that touch on it. Unsurprisingly, many of our Afghanistan interviews focus on the country\u2019s protracted political crisis.A good starting point is the recommendations from leading academic Thomas Barfield. An anthropologist at Boston University, he chooses <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/afghanistan-thomas-barfield\/\">books to explain the culture and politics of Afghanistan<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIn 2021, the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year was awarded to a book set in Kabul: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/shadow-city-woman-walks-kabul\/\"><em>Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul <\/em>by Taran Khan<\/a> (we also have a short Q&amp;A with the author).","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/afghanistan\/","name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","taxonomy":"category","parent":5616,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5616"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24355"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24355"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}