Reading Kabul

Mapping The City Through Books, The Author Discovers A Kabul Made Entirely Of Words.

01 April 2011
Shah Muhammad Rais at the Shah M Bookstore, arguably the best-stocked English bookshop in the city.
TARAN N KHAN FOR THE CARAVAN
Shah Muhammad Rais at the Shah M Bookstore, arguably the best-stocked English bookshop in the city.
TARAN N KHAN FOR THE CARAVAN

Kublai asks Marco, “When you return to the West, will you repeat to your people the same tales you tell me?”

“I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting... It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Taran N Khan is a journalist based in Mumbai. Her work can be found at www.porterfolio.net/taran.

Keywords: Kabul Afghanistan books Dari bookstore Taliban Heart
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