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Shadow city : a woman walks Kabul by Taran Khan [N. Khan, Taran] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'Any reader of this book is sure to discover a Kabul so unlike what the media portrays. Taran's love of her city comes across in her enchanting evocation of a city where so many tragedies echo from across Kabul's decades of war' Raja Shehadeh, author of Palestinian WalksOne of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul in 2006, she imagines it as a return to the land her forebears hailed from centuries ago. It is a city both familiar and unknown. 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, actors 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...

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Author

Taran Khan [N. Khan, Taran]

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781473553507

Category

work of fiction