{"product_id":"shadow-city-a-woman-walks-kabul-stanford-dolman-travel-book-award-winner-9780143453062","title":"Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul (Stanford Dolman Travel Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Taran N. Khan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH India Local Print\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER, STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER TATA LITERATURE LIVE! 2020 FIRST BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWilliam Dalrymple\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e'A brilliant book' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eChristina Lamb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Taran N. Khan first arrives in Kabul in the spring of 2006-five years after the Taliban government was overthrown-she finds a city both familiar and unknown. Falling in with poets, archaeologists and film-makers, she begins to explore the city and, over the course of several returns, discovers a Kabul quite different from the one she had expected. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShadow City \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an account of these expeditions, a personal and meditative portrait of a city we know primarily in terms of conflict. With Khan as our guide, we move from the glitter of wedding halls to the imperilled beauty of a Buddhist monastery, slip inside a beauty salon and wander through book markets. But as these walks take us deeper into the city, it becomes clear that to talk of Kabul's various wars in the past tense is a mistake.\u003cbr\u003e Part reportage and part reflection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eShadow City \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis an elegiac prose map of Kabul's hidden spaces-and the cities that we carry within us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH India Local Print","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46122603610263,"sku":"9780143453062","price":228.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143453062.webp?v=1769298607","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shadow-city-a-woman-walks-kabul-stanford-dolman-travel-book-award-winner-9780143453062","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}