Shadow City A Woman Walks Kabul (Audiobook)

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award 2021.
Winner of the Tata Literature Live First Book Award for non-fiction 2020.
One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk....
When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes, but experimenting with new modes of living.
Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, filmmakers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country, Khan watches the cycle of transformation begin again.