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Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan Paperback – Illustrated, March 6, 2007

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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 Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends upon our own.

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    March 6, 2007
  4. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0312426593
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0312426590
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Customers find the book insightful and honest about current events. They describe it as an eye-opening read that paints a different picture than the media portrays. While some readers found the writing quality somewhat well-written, others noted grammatical errors. Overall, customers found the book to be a fascinating read with a different perspective from what is reported in the media.

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Customers find the book insightful and honest about today's reality. They describe it as an eye-opening read that paints a different picture than the media portrays.

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  • B. McEwan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing is Believing
    Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2008
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    This is a scorcher of a book and Ann Jones is a brilliant writer who makes the brutality of life in Afghanistan so real that the people she writes about jump off the page and into your head and heart. Jones, a journalist, went to Afghanistan to work with an international NGO (nongovernmental organization) that seeks to improve the lives of Afghan women and children. This is a mission that seems impossible, given all the constraints, both cultural and political, that are brought to bear on any logical effort to address the grinding poverty and despair in this unhappy place.

    Some reviewers have criticized Jones's account as naive, asserting that she does not take into account the political realities surrounding Afghanistan, but that is exactly the reason that I found her book so compelling. From Jones we get no excuses or rationalizations as to why Afghanistan is a perennial pawn in the "great game" of world power. And she makes few apologies for a culture that dehumanizes women and girls, the first step to making it OK for men to trade and treat them like animals (or worse). Jones tells it like it is, which is a very different story than we get from governments and the entrenched international development professionals. Jones was an eyewitness to how big development plans play out on the ground, and she relays her truth in a style that is as unsparing as the rigid, tribal rules that impede progress.

    This book is wrenching and at times painful to read, but I argue that it is important for anyone who wants to have a full view of our world today and the events that are currently shaping it. While it's clearly true that Ann Jones has an alternate take on the reasons behind Afghanistan's present, foul condition, hers is a voice that needs to be heard and her subjects are people whose stories deserve to be told.
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  • Harold Sanchez
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2020
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    Eye opening read. Everyone should read this book. You can learn a lot from the experiences of other people.
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  • Contentpane
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Magnificent Read But Beware of the Author's Agenda
    Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2009
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    From a first reading, this book can be described as an in-depth and focused analysis of today's Afghanistan:
    its customs, mores, intertwining cultures and the pervading hopelessness and poverty that seems to suffuse and suffocate
    the entire country. Ann Jones does a magnificent job in analyzing some of the root causes of Afghanistan's
    tragic history from the early middle ages to the later would-be conquerors (including the US). And, as the US and other
    NATO countries decide the fate of their involvement in Afghanistan, this book could not be more timely.

    It is somewhat well-written with many grammatical mistakes that one can almost forgive due to the author's
    fervor for her subject. However, her obviously feminist and vehemently misandrist agenda is almost
    frightening and detracts from both her sincerity and veracity. Indeed, the author's hatred of men is almost palpable and can force the reader
    to lose focus as the author's references to a phantasmagorical, misogynistic American history almost obscure her narrative:
    the several accounts in which Ms. Jones compares the plight of burned, imprisoned and forlorn Afghani women to
    American women is almost ludicrous in its pomposity.

    But, in short, I would recommend this book to anyone who seeks to understand the state of Afghanistan and the foreign elements
    who both try to improve and destroy this magnificent country. This book covers just enough of the Afghani experience to
    introduce the Western reader to a very different cultural context that most Westerners (myself included) could not begin to fathom without the author's
    vivid and interpretive assistance. I would however, caution any reader to be aware of Ms. Jones' perspective and her incessant
    misandrist drumbeat.
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  • Hugh McIsaac
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kabul in Winter should be required reading!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013
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    Ann Jones' "Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace" is extraordinary: presenting the reality at its most granular level. She links the history of this tormented place from Alexander the Great to the geology created by the collision of the Indian and the Eurasian plates, creating the Hindu Kush where geology becomes destiny and models the complex interplay of the various factions.

    Much like Frances Fitzgerald's "Fire in the Lake" about Vietnam, "Kabul in Winter" helps make Afghanistan understandable!
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  • Timothy M
    3.0 out of 5 stars A little over the top
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2009
    Another interesting read, but her constant interjections on the US and US FP is not only annoying but often wrong. She often appears hypocritical. Case in point, she is a contractor (true a volunteer) that is why she is there. Yet she doesn't see the contradiction in her complaining about using expats, while she is an expat.

    - Another problem is what appears to be a lack of ignorance for the Development field in general and her misunderstanding of terms such as grass roots. She seems to be bothered that no one would fund her teaching programs, which she claims is bottom-up, and she seems confused on the difference between "humanitarian assistance" and "development assistance."

    Her education program is not humanitarian assistance at all nor is it a bottom-up approach. Its a development project she is shopping around for a buyer, there were no Afghans involved in its planning, nor was it a humanitarian program (shelter, food, etc). That doesn't mean it may be a good idea, but nevertheless its frustrating at what seems to be her confusion.

    But even with all these annoying points. I still enjoyed her writing style and her descriptive depiction of life in successive winters in Kabul.
    8 people found this helpful
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  • WriteNow
    5.0 out of 5 stars Reality on the Ground
    Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2009
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    Ann Taylor's "Winter in Kabul" is a straight forward - straight shooting account of her days working in Kabul in 2002. She is brutally honest about what has and has not been accomplished in that country. Looking through her eyes, we see the kindness of the people she worked with in stark contrast to the political system of Afghanistan. It's a must read for those who appreciate truth pre-spin.
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