# Shadow City

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- Book: [Shadow City](https://www.bookquiver.com/taran-khanam/shadow-city) ([Shadow City.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/taran-khanam/shadow-city.md))
- Authors: [Taran Khanam](https://www.bookquiver.com/taran-khanam)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-802-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2021-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell Kabul 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. **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** 'Powerfully evocative' Kapka Kassabova 'A wonderful journey' Atiq Rahimi 'Khan illuminates Kabul's life-affirming humanity' TLS