Shadow city : a woman walks Kabul
Khan, Taran2019
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When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul in 2006, she imagines it as a return - a journey to the land her forebears hailed from centuries ago. She finds an unexpected guide in her grandfather who - despite never visiting the city - knows it intimately through books and stories, poetry and myth. With his voice in her head, and falling in with poets, doctors and other Kabulis, Khan uncovers a place quite different from the one she anticipated. Her wanderings reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace, a shape-shifting place governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living. These walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living: the booksellers, archaeologists, intrepid film-makers and entrepreneurs who are remaking and rebuilding this ancient 3000-year-old city.
Main title:
Shadow city : a woman walks Kabul / Taran N. Khan.
Author:
Khan, Taran, author
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.
Collation:
xvi, 272 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784742287 (hbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2568866