Shadow city : a woman walks Kabul
Khan, Taran2021
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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, authorPatel, Shernaz, narrator
Edition:
Unabridged edition.
Imprint:
London : Vintage Digital, 2021.
Collation:
1 online resource (audio files) : digital, WAV file
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Performers:
Read by Shernaz Patel.
ISBN:
9781529193350 (audio download)
Dewey class:
958.1047
Language:
English
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BRN:
1067113
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