Shadow City (Record no. 26574)
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| fixed length control field | 01584nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780670090600 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 958.1047 |
| Item number | KHA-S |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Khan , Taran N. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Shadow City |
| Sub Title | :A Woman Walks Kabul |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Gurgaon |
| Name of publisher | Vintage |
| Year of publication | 2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 239p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | For most Indians, Kabul is a city that is near, yet far-familiar, yet unknown. When Taran N. Khan arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2006, five years after the overthrow of the Taliban regime, she was earnestly cautioned never to walk. Her instincts compelled her to do the opposite: to take that precarious first step and enter the life of the city with the unique, tactile intimacy that comes from being a walker. She didn't stop until 2013, when she returned to India. In Shadow City, Taran N. Khan paints a lyrical, personal, and meditative portrait of a city we know primarily in terms of conflict and peace. As a Muslim woman raised in a small town in India, Taran discovered that she had access to parts of Kabul uncharted by travellers before her. The result reads like an elegiac prose map of the city, rich with surprises-from the glitter of wedding halls that shine like a bizarre version of Las Vegas; to the mental health hospital where women are abandoned and isolated but exist in a rare space of freedom and solitude; to the bookseller behind The Bookseller of Kabul, who sued Åsne Seierstad for her portrayal of him and then published the rebuttal which he displays proudly in his shop window. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Manners and customs |
| Form subdivision | Women |
| -- | Travel |
| Geographic subdivision | Afghanistan-Kabul |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2021-02-19 | Overseas Press India Private Limited | 437.27 | 2021-02-19 | 958.1047 KHA-S | 51298 | 599.00 | 2021-02-19 | Books |