In this powerful novel set in contemporary Kandahar, an Afghan woman approaches an American military base to demand the return of her brother's body. At a stark outpost in the Kandahar mountain range, a team of American soldiers watches a young Afghan woman approach. She has come to beg for the return of her brother's body. The camp's tense, claustrophobic atmosphere comes to a boil as the men argue about what to do next. Taking its cue from the Antigone myth, this significant, eloquent novel re-creates the chaos, intensity, and immediacy of war, and conveys the inevitable repercussions felt by the soldiers and their families--especially one sister.

The Jemaa el Fna, Marrakesh's legendary central square, is the seat of an ancient storytelling tradition. When two young foreigners go missing from the Jemaa, Hassan, who is renowned as the Storyteller of Marrakesh, invites his audience to contribute to piecing together the story of what might have happened to them. The Storyteller of Marrakesh is 'an enigmatic fable in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights' - The New York Times