by Christina Lamb · Harper Collins · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007142514
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years» is Christina Lamb's memoir, published by HarperCollins in hardcover (338 pages, in English).
Christina Lamb, a journalist, recounts in the first person her experience in Afghanistan and her return to the country to report on its people amid war. Blending reportage and memoir, she shows daily life, the weight of decades of conflict, and the role of sewing and other traditions in Herat as a way of keeping an endangered culture alive.
The work was published in 2002 by HarperCollins in London and includes maps, black-and-white photographs and color plates, as well as bibliographic references and an index.
Intended for readers of recent history, journalistic memoirs and travel narratives focused on Afghanistan.
Christina Lamb OBE is a British journalist and author. She is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times.
