The Sewing Circles of Herat - A Memoir of Afghanistan

Zusatztext Long haunted by her experiences in Afghanistan! Lamb returned there afterlast year's attack on the World Trade Centre to find out what had becomeof the people and places that had marked her life as a young graduate.Thistime seeing the land through the eyes of a mother and experienced foreigncorrespondent! Lamb's journey brings her in touch with the people no oneelse is writing about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter centuryof war. Informationen zum Autor Christina Lamb is US editor for the Sunday Times. In 2009 she was awarded the prestigious Prix Bayeux Calvados for her reporting from Afghanistan. She won the Foreign Press Association Award for Story of the Year in 2007, and was also named Foreign Correspondent of the Year. She is the author of the best-selling 'The Africa House', 'The Sewing Circles of Herat', and 'I Am Malala', co-authored with Malala Yousafzai. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Lamb
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2003
• EAN: 9780007142521
• ISBN: 978-0-00-714252-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Flamingo; Harper Collins Paperbacks; Flamingo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Asia; Frau; Berichte, Erinnerungen, Afghanistan : Berichte, Erinnerungen