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A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
Harper
February 2004
On Sale: February 3, 2004
384 pages
ISBN: 0060505273
EAN: 9780060505271
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for
Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she
spent two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin
victory over the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in
and out of their country in a variety of guises. Returning to Afghanistan after the attacks on the World
Trade Center to report for Britain's Sunday Telegraph, Lamb
discovered the people no one else had written about: the
abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Among
them, the brave women writers of Herat who risked their
lives to carry on a literary tradition under the guise of
sewing circles; the princess whose palace was surrounded by
tanks on the eve of her wedding; the artist who painted out
all the people in his works to prevent them from being
destroyed by the Taliban; and Khalil Ahmed Hassani, a former
Taliban torturer who admitted to breaking the spines of men
and then making them stand on their heads. Christina Lamb's evocative reporting brings to life these
stories. Her unique perspective on Afghanistan and deep
passion for the people she writes about make this the
definitive account of the tragic plight of a proud nation.
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