
More than a cookbook, Taste of Sarband is a collection of anecdotes, memories, cultural lessons, and musings on what food means to Tajiks, both personally and culturally.
Ellen A. Abdulmuminov
Tajikistan (TJ) · Books
Books for Tajikistan (TJ).

More than a cookbook, Taste of Sarband is a collection of anecdotes, memories, cultural lessons, and musings on what food means to Tajiks, both personally and culturally.

A Collection of Four Stories by Gulsifat Shahidi Viewed from the perspective of three generations, Shahidi presents a rare and poignant insight into the impact which Tajikistan's terrible civil war had on its people and its culture during the early '90s.

Chronicles the influential Tajik author's growth to manhood in pre-revolutionary Uzbekistan and includes two of his autobiographical novellas