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Book Choice for January 2010
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
ISBN-10: 1844080471
ISBN-13: 978-1844080472
Synopsis
For more than twenty years Sultan Kahn defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street.
In Spring 2002 award winning journalist Åsne Seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. As Seierstad steps back from the page and lets the Khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment. The result is a unique portrait of a family and a country.
About the Author
Åsne Seierstad (born February 10, 1970) is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones - most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2003 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
