Letters from the Edge 12 Women of the World Write Home

The best and most timeless examples of New Internationalist magazine's acclaimed Letters From series, in which women writers have homed in on the nuances and resonances of everyday life and culture in 12 different locations around the world. Examples include villages in Mongolia, Cairo, the Colombian rainforest, Lahore and a provincial city in China. Each section has a brief biography of the writer, followed by a summary of the relevant country's political situation at the time of writing.