{"product_id":"kabul-in-winter-life-without-peace-in-afghanistan","title":"Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eKabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnn Jones\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805078848\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMetropolitan Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eA sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban\u003cbr\u003e Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction.\u003cbr\u003e Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked--by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers--always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new \"democracy\" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is.\u003cbr\u003e At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, \"Kabul in Winter\" brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Metropolitan Books","offers":[{"title":"Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan | Ann Jones | Hardcover | 9780805078848 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1787095","offer_id":67793596809368,"sku":"1787095","price":11.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/713sEcKVRBS.jpg?v=1792766993","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/kabul-in-winter-life-without-peace-in-afghanistan","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}