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100 1  Khan, Taran,|eauthor. 
245 10 Shadow city :|ba woman walks Kabul /|cTaran N. Khan. 
264  1 London :|bChatto & Windus,|c[2019] 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xvi, 272 pages :|bmap ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-263) and 
       index. 
505 0  Returns -- Written on the city -- Absences -- Map of 
       moving images -- Walking with the djinns -- Veiled city --
       Returns. 
520    When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul in 2006,
       she imagines it as a return to the land her forebears 
       hailed from centuries ago. It is a city both familiar and 
       unknown. She finds an unexpected guide in her grandfather 
       who - despite never visiting the city - knows it 
       intimately through books and stories, poetry and myth. 
       With his voice in her head, and falling in with poets, 
       doctors, actors and other Kabulis, Khan uncovers a place 
       quite different from the one she anticipated. Her 
       wanderings reveal a fragile city in a state of flux- 
       stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the 
       promise of peace, a shape-shifting place governed by age-
       old codes but experimenting with new modes of living. 
       These walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, 
       and to the land of the living- the booksellers, 
       archaeologists, intrepid film-makers and entrepreneurs who
       are remaking and rebuilding this ancient 3,000-year-old 
       city. Lost in its labyrinthine streets Khan reads the city
       more closely, excavating the ghostly iterations of Kabul's
       past and its layers of forgotten memories - unearthing a 
       city that has been brutally erased and redrawn as each new
       war sweeps through. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw 
       from the country, Khan watches as her friends and comrades
       also prepare to depart, and the cycle of transformation 
       begins again. Filled with unique insights about the 
       meaning of home and the haunting power of loss and absence,
       Taran Khan conjures a magic that is spellbinding and 
       utterly her own. 
600 10 Khan, Taran|xTravel|zAfghanistan|zKabul. 
651  0 Kabul (Afghanistan)|xDescription and travel. 
651  0 Kabul (Afghanistan)|xHistory. 
651  0 Kabul (Afghanistan)|xSocial life and customs|y21st 
       century.