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2001: An extraordinary memoir of a woman’s love affair with Afghanistan and its people.Nothing to do with sewing!
The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years
What you need to know before your trail
Ten years ago, Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people were fighting against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the country and its people.
Long haunted by her experiences in Afghanistan, Lamb returned there after last year’s attack on the World Trade Centre to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her life as a young graduate.This time seeing the land through the eyes of a mother and experienced foreign correspondent, Lamb’s journey brings her in touch with the people no one else is writing about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war.
Locations
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Kabul
Kabul was once quite a busy and thriving city before the 1978 revolution. What it lacked in infrastructure it made up for in its cosmopolitan makeup.
Once the Taliban invaded and took over, the progress stopped and went back decades if not hundreds of years. They killed, controlled and decimated a growing and thriving country putting its people back many years and dashing their dreams to a pulp.
They destroyed education and books, and ransacked the country’s countless historic treasures like Bamiyan Buddah.
then the country exploded and the civil war began in earnest. This book enables you a remarkable insight into a country which has fallen into such despair. The author is a remarkable guide as she takes you with her to meet Hamid Karzai, finds out about how the Taliban operate and sprinkling in enough titbits of history or local politics to explain why the people act the way they do.
The history and the differences between all the local tribes.is particularly interesting as it helps illustrate how the pieces of the jigsaw of the present situation in Afghanistan fit together.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years
Destination: Kabul Author/Guide: Christina Lamb Departure Time: 1990s, 2000s
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