{"product_id":"my-dear-kabul-9781399727990","title":"My Dear Kabul","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Untold Narratives CIC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e* A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A real-time, moving and intimate portrait of a year living under the Taliban'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'An intimate, courageous chronicle of life'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOBSERVER, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBOOK OF THE DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A hugely important book'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e BERNARDINE EVARISTO\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A deeply moving collective memoir'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e LYSE DOUCET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn August 2021, as the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul, twenty-one women writers in Afghanistan messaged their WhatsApp group chat: they asked what news other had heard and if everyone was safe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese women had been brought together as a writing group and were about to publish their first collection of short stories. Some were students, some newly married, one was a grandmother; all were afraid of what was now to come. Over the next year, in their makeshift online refuge, they shared the day-to-day reality of life after the Taliban retook Afghanistan. This is their collective diary, forming a powerful chorus of resistance and solidarity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Fascinatingly detailed and fiercely brave'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Its courage is momentous'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ALI SMITH\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45608549777559,"sku":"9781399727990","price":862.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781399727990.webp?v=1769294571","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/my-dear-kabul-9781399727990","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}