Shadow City:
A Woman Walks Kabul

When Taran Khan first arrived in Kabul in 2006, she found a city both familiar and unknown. Falling in with poets, archaeologists, and filmmakers, and guided by her grandfather's voice – who had never been to Kabul, but knew it intimately through books and poetry – she explored it across several returns.

Shadow City is the record of those walks: a personal and meditative portrait of a city the world knows mostly through war. Moving between graveyards and libraries, cinemas and gardens, Khan maps the layered histories of a place in flux, and the lives of the people remaking a city with a 3,000 year old history, and is forever in flux.