Taran Khan travelled to and worked in Kabul between 2006 and 2013. Her first book, Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul (2019) won the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award and the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award
Before the Talibans took control of Afghanistan this month, once there was a Kabul that was a city of dreamers and poets, kite flyers and children trudging to school.
