by Åsne Seierstad · De Geus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044521740
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«De boekhandelaar van Kaboel» is Åsne Seierstad's chronicle, published by De Geus in paperback (284 pages, in Dutch).
After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002, Norwegian correspondent Åsne Seierstad lived for four months with bookseller Sultan Khan and his family in Kabul. The work shows Khan's passion for books and his rejection of censorship alongside a strict view of women's roles, alternating between the male public world and the female private one.
The work was originally published in Norwegian as «Bokhandleren i Kabul» in 2002 and received the Bokhandlerprisen award.
For readers of reportage and memoirs with an interest in Afghanistan, censorship, and the role of books as resistance.
Åsne Seierstad 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 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
