The sewing circles of Herat : my Afghan years
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The sewing circles of Herat : my Afghan years
Harper Perennial, 2004
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The sewing circles of Herat : a memoir of Afghanistan
The sewing circles of Herat
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
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  Hyogo
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
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  Okinawa
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Note
Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2002
"First Published in paperback by Flamingo 2003" -- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p.[327]-328) and index
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Description
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.
'Of all books about Afghanistan, Christina Lamb's is the most revealing and rewarding...a personal, perceptive and moving account of bravery in the face of staggering difficulties.' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times
'As an account of how Afghanistan got into its present state, and of the making of the grotesque regime of the Taliban, this book could not possibly be bettered. Brilliant.' Matthew Leeming, Spectator
'Lamb's book combines a love of Afghanistan with a fearless search for the human stories behind the past twenty-three years of war...Her book is not only a necessary education for the Western reader in the political warring that generated the torture, murder and poverty, but also a stirring lament for the country of ruins that was once better known for its poetry and mosques.' James Hopkin, The Times
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