by Åsne Seierstad · Maeva · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496231054
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«El librero de Kabul» is the journalistic chronicle by Åsne Seierstad, published by Maeva in hardcover (269 pages, in Spanish).
After the fall of the Taliban regime, the author lives for months with the bookseller Sultán Khan and his family in Kabul. From that position, between the female and male spheres, she portrays customs, tensions between tradition and modernity, and the harsh reality of women in Afghanistan.
Originally published in Norwegian as «Bokhandleren i Kabul», the book won the Bokhandlerprisen award in 2002.
Work for readers of nonfiction, memoirs, and reportage interested in Afghanistan and the Middle East.
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.
