Kabul in Winter Life Without Peace in Afghanistan [Paperback]

Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in humanitarian aid. Investigating the city's prison for women, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, Jones enters the lives of everyday women and men and reveals through small events some big disjunctions: between the new Afghan democracy and the still-entrenched warlords, between American promises and performance, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful,Kabul in Winterbrings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends upon our own.

Ann Jonesis the author of eight books, includingWomen Who Kill, Next Time She'll Be Dead,andLooking for Lovedu. An authority on women and violence, her work has appeared in numerous publications, includingThe New York TimesandThe Nation.

A work of impassioned reportage, a sympathetic observer's damage assessment of a country torn apart by warlords, religious fanatics, and ill-advised superpower conflicts dating back more than a century . . . Eloquent and persuasive. The New York Times

[A] potent and disturbing new book. O, The Oprah Magazine

Often I felt a desire to thank Jones for shining a flashlight on a corner of human experience still so shrouded in shadow. The Christian Science Monitor

We meet many remarkable people in this angry, eloquent book, but none more remarkable than Jones herself. Harper's

[An] illuminating and complex book. Entertainment Weekly

Jones's book gathers power as it goes on . . . and some of her descriptions approach poetry. The Washington Post

Chilling . . . Jones's impressions are vividly rendered. . . . This achingly candid commentary brings thelÓ>