Skip to content
The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years (Paperback)
  • The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years (Paperback)
zoom

The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years (Paperback)

(author)
£12.99
Paperback 368 Pages
Published: 07/07/2003
Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99
  • In stock

Usually dispatched within 1-2 days

Free UK delivery on orders over £25, otherwise £2.99
  • This item has been added to your basket

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

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007142521
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 270 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm

You may also be interested in...

Wild Swans
Added to basket
Paperback
£12.99
Finding the Edge
Added to basket
Unbreakable
Added to basket
Persepolis I & II
Added to basket
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Added to basket
Wayfarer
Added to basket
Paperback
£10.99
Cider With Rosie
Added to basket
The Lives of Lee Miller
Added to basket
The Way of the Hermit
Added to basket
The Odd Woman and the City
Added to basket
Hildasay to Home
Added to basket
Paperback
£10.99 £8.99
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Added to basket
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Added to basket
Be Useful
Added to basket
Paperback
£10.99 £8.99
Me vs Brain
Added to basket
Paperback
£10.99
Normal Women
Added to basket
Paperback
£10.99 £8.99

Please sign in to write a review

Your review has been submitted successfully.