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Shadow City

Shadow City

A Woman Walks Kabul (STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARD WINNER)

Taran N. Khan
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WINNER,STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER, TATA LITERATURE LIVE! FIRST BOOK AWARD 2020 – NON-FICTION

‘A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly’ William Dalrymple

‘A brilliant book’ Christina Lamb

When Taran N. Khan first arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2006-five years after the Taliban government was overthrown-she found 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.
Shadow City is 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.
Part reportage and part reflection, Shadow City is an elegiac prose map of Kabul’s hidden spaces-and the cities that we carry within us.

Imprint: Vintage Books

Published: Nov/2019

ISBN: 9780143453062

Length : 304 Pages

MRP : ₹599.00

Shadow City

A Woman Walks Kabul (STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARD WINNER)

Taran N. Khan

WINNER,STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER, TATA LITERATURE LIVE! FIRST BOOK AWARD 2020 – NON-FICTION

‘A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly’ William Dalrymple

‘A brilliant book’ Christina Lamb

When Taran N. Khan first arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2006-five years after the Taliban government was overthrown-she found 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.
Shadow City is 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.
Part reportage and part reflection, Shadow City is an elegiac prose map of Kabul’s hidden spaces-and the cities that we carry within us.

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Taran N. Khan

TARAN N. KHAN is a journalist and author based in Mumbai. She grew up in Aligarh and was educated in New Delhi and London. Her works have been widely published in India and internationally, including in Guernica, Al Jazeera, the Caravan and Himal Southasian. Her writing has also received support from the MacDowell
Colony, the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, among others. From 2006 to 2013, Khan spent long periods living and working in Kabul. Shadow City is her first book.

A walk in the shadow city

When Taran N. Khan first arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2006-five years after the Taliban government was overthrown-she found a city both familiar and unknown. Shadow City is an account of Khan’s expeditions around the city of Kabul, a personal and meditative portrait of a city we know primarily in terms of conflict. […]

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