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Taran Khan presents Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul

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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/536553 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul Author: Taran Khan Narrator: Shernaz Patel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 9, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award 2021 Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for Non-Fiction 2020 One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living. Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, film-makers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country, Khan watches the cycle of transformation begin again. 'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell Kabul 'Powerfully evocative' Kapka Kassabova 'A wonderful journey' Atiq Rahimi 'Khan illuminates Kabul's life-affirming humanity' TLS © Taran Khan 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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