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"War wasn't beautiful at all. It was the ugliest thing I had ever seen.... It was about the people -- the sons and daughters, the mothers and fathers." So writes Christina Lamb in The Sewing Circles of Herat -- a chronicle of Lamb’s time in the late 1980s as a foreign correspondent covering the Afghanistan-Soviet clash, and the days she spent there after September 11, 2001.
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Fact File
| Name:
Christina Lamb
Current Home:
London, England and Estoril, Portugal
Date of Birth:
May 15, 1965
Place of Birth:
London, England
| | Education:
M.A., Politics and Philosophy, Oxford University, 1987
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| | The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan
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Christina Lamb
In her latest book -- selected as a finalist for the 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Nonfiction -- Lamb explores and exposes the tragedy-torn landscape of Afghanistan and the lives of some of its forgotten people. "[A] gripping book that makes sense of a place few understand," observe our editors.
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Lamb's Big Break
| In our exclusive interview with Lamb, she recalled an important moment early on in her career as a foreign correspondent: "My first big interview was with Pakistan's then president, Zia-ul Haq, a military dictator, who rarely spoke to journalists," she recalls. "I had never been served tea by a dictator before, and was terrified so didn't take any notes, taping everything and hypnotized by his big oblong teeth. When I later switched on the tape it was completely blank -- I had failed to press the Record button. Fortunately, it being a military dictatorship, they too had taped the interview -- so I told his military secretary there was a problem with ‘some' of the interview being distorted and they agreed to give me a copy."
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Milan Kundera
When we asked Lamb about some of her favorite books, she named Milan Kundera's masterful look at obsession and revolution as a treasured read, calling it "a painfully beautiful book of love and how people are robbed of identity in a totalitarian system, something I have seen for myself in places in which I have reported."
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"I often take poetry with me when I am on tough assignments and cannot carry much, and this thin book written when he was in his 20s and full of the passion of youth is perfect," Lamb observes of this classic collection of Neruda's poetry. Read our interview to learn more about Lamb's favorite writers and reads, including:
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