Ninetyeight black and white photos steeped in the pathos and predicament of the Afghan people accompanied by soulsearching commentary and poetry from thirteen distinguished contributors. Basqueborn photographer Alen Silva travelled twice across wartorn Afghanistan to places few foreigners dare to venture to bring us these soulsearing photographs of a devastated land. Among the ruins of Kabul of the Bamiyan Buddhas of Soviet tanks of Afghan society the hope for peace still lights the wear