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AFSANA PRESS

STORIES THAT MATTER

Stories that Matter

Afsana Press is an independent publishing house producing sparkling literary works by authors whose stories have a direct relation to social, political or cultural issues in countries and communities around the world

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Bird in Space

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By Miki Lentin

In London, Jerry Gold's mother calls with an impossible demand: travel to Romania and into Ukraine to save a wooden house her father built before the second world war. The house had been a refuge for the family before they were deported in 1941 to Transnistria, a part of the holocaust. Armed only with his mother's blurred 1980s photographs, a befriended truck driver...​

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Old Masters in Marrakesh

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By James Debens

Max Marwell is caught between running his global art business and dealing with his own past and that of the Jewish people. Born and raised in Linz, Austria, the hometown of Hitler and Eichmann, he is obsessed with avenging the deaths of his parents and the restitution of art looted by the Nazis...​

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The Last Pomegranate Tree

By Bachtyar Ali

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​Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen. So begins The Last Pomegranate Tree, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's rule and Iraq's Kurdish conflict...​​

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Songs of Freedom

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An Anthology by Iranian and Afghan Women Poets

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​Ten women poets from Iran and Afghanistan share their ideas, emotions, desires and worldviews with lovers of poetry, in celebration of life and freedom. Featuring poems by:..

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Hyphenated Lives

Native Diasporas

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By TK Sebastian

A young man in his early twenties, Toros lives with his mother and younger sister in south-west Turkey. It is the spring of 1956, and aside from the haunting memories of the previous September, there has been little to disturb the quiet life they have painstakingly built. Yet that...

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The Resurrected

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By Joost Hiltermann

They were meant to be dead, buried under the sand. But they survived. Two young Kurds manage to miraculously escape Saddam Hussein’s killing grounds to eventually find their way to America. A story of luck, nerve and perseverance, with many setbacks along

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The Almond Garden of Kabul

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By Mandana Hendessi

They called it Badam Bagh – the Almond Garden. But inside Kabul’s central women’s prison, nothing bloomed. Nothing except rage. When Niloofar, a teenage inmate, sets herself on fire, the authorities call it a suicide attempt. But two women – Sultan, a feared inmate who once killed her abusive husband, and Setara,..

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The Good, the Bad and the Gringo

By Kae Bahar

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At the age of ten, Merywan Rashaba's life is shattered when the local Mullah declares him a neuter. Merywan is terrified. If his father gets to know about his gender ambiguity, he will put a knife to his throat. Growing up as a Kurd in Saddam's Iraq, he feels he doesn't belong to...

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Winter Sun

By Miki Lentin

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A novel depicting a spiky father-son relationship tested to its limits on their last holiday together. 

A nine-day winter break in Tenerife. Nothing is quite good enough. A son tries in vain to ask his ailing, elderly Irish Jewish father questions about their past before it’s too late...

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Oh, Sugar

By Jane Labous

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When disgraced journalist Dolly Fontaine discovers that her mother, the seventies film star Gloria Fontaine, was a spy recruited by the British Intelligence Services to ensnare a ruthless Lusenkan dictator, past and present collide with dangerous consequences.

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The Man Who Was a Tree

By Goran Baba Ali

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​A street photographer is the first who sees in a dreamy, fuddled vision the creature by the side of a river at the outskirts of the city, starting him on an obsessive journey. This would enchain a series of events bringing the city into turmoil and change his own life...​

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Whispering Walls

By Choman Hardi

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The U.S. invasion of Iraq is looming. Three siblings – two in London, one in Slemany – recall their troubled pasts. Stories of war, displacement, and coming to terms with the tragedies of a Kurdish family, all told from the siblings' varying perspectives... ​

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Inner Core

By Miki Lentin

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Death, anxiety, masculinity, family and children, social good - and rocks. All things that touch the life of a middle-aged man. In these stories, written over the past two years, author Miki Lentin goes in search of a rock with his child in Ireland, travels sleep-deprived to Istanbul with...

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Past Participle

By Jane Labous

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A troubled Senegalese lawyer investigates her brother's death, three decades ago in Dakar, at the hands of a British diplomat's wife. Dakar, Senegal, 1987: On a rainy night after a wild party, the British ambassador’s wife, Vivienne Hughes, is involved in a car crash. Her vehicle hits the... 

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The Glass Wall

By Goran Baba Ali

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The story of a teenage refugee who must re-live the pain of his past to enter a land waiting behind a glass wall. Will his story be convincing enough to guarantee his safety?

A story of struggle and persecution, yet abundant in hope, The Glass Wall is a...

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Writer: Goran Baba Ali
Goran Baba Ali
1 hour ago4 min read

Bird in Space – new novel by Miki Lentin

PRESS RELEASE 9 October 2026 Afsana Press announces the publication of BIRD IN SPACE by Miki Lentin ‘Jerry had only been in Romania for a few hours and already the light had darkened.’ Afsana Press announces the publication of Miki Lentin’s novel, BIRD IN SPACE on 2 February 2027, a captivating story of one man’s journey across Romania and Ukraine to find and save a family home. In London, Jerry Gold’s mother calls with an impossible demand: travel to Romania and into

 
 
 
Writer: Goran Baba Ali
Goran Baba Ali
Jan 104 min read

Afsana Press to launch The Resurrected by Joost Hiltermann on 5 May 2026

A journey of survival, rising from Saddam’s mass graves, to a haven in Virginia They were meant to be dead, buried under the sand. But they survived. Two young Kurds manage to miraculously escape Saddam Hussein’s killing grounds to eventually find their way to America. A story of luck, nerve, and perseverance, with many setbacks along the way. On sale – 05 May 2026 Available now for pre-order Press Release 10 January 2026 Afsana Press announces the publication in paperb

 
 
 

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