| A British war correspondent chronicles her ten-year visit to Pakistan, during which she witnessed the rise of the Taliban in the last phase of the Soviet War, the brutal victimization of the Afghan people, and the literary traditions of the women writers of Herat, in an updated edition featuring a new afterword by the author. Reprint. 20,000 first printing....Twenty-one-year-old Christina Lamb left suburban England for Peshawar on the frontier of the Afghan war. Captivated, she spent two years tracking the final stages of the mujaheddin victory over the Soviets, as Afghan friends smuggled her in and out of their country in a variety of guises. Returning to Afghanistan after the attacks on the World Trade Center to report for Britain's Sunday Telegraph, Lamb discovered the people no one else had written about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war. Among them, the brave women writers of Herat who risked their lives to carry on a literary tradition under the guise of sewing circles; the princess whose palace was surrounded by tanks on the eve of her wedding; the artist who painted out all the people in his works to prevent them from being destroyed by the Taliban; and Khalil Ahmed Hassani, a former Taliban torturer who admitted to breaking the spines of men and then making them stand on their heads. Christina Lamb's evocative reporting brings to life these stories. Her unique perspective on Afghanistan and deep passion for the people she writes about make this the definitive account of the tragic plight of a proud nation.... Click here or on the image for details | 
| | Alice Forrester, a twenty-three-year-old anorexic, encounters an eclectic group of people when her family, friends, and doctors try to steer her toward recovery in the eating disorders clinic at Seaview Hospital...It's 1984 and Alice Forrester is a 25-year-old anorexic who has just experienced heart failure when she is admitted into a hospital renowned for its eating disorders clinic. This funny, poignant, resonant and wise first novel was greeted by strong praise and hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a coming-of-age novel for the 90's.... Click here or on the image for details | 
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