by Asne Seierstad · Back Bay Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780316159418
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«The Bookseller of Kabul» is Asne Seierstad's journalistic chronicle, published by Back Bay Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
After the fall of the Taliban, Seierstad lived for four months with bookseller Sultan Khan and his family in Kabul. The book recounts his efforts to bring books to the city for over twenty years, despite arrests and the burning of his copies, and portrays daily life and the situation of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
English translation by Ingrid Christophersen of the Norwegian original «Bokhandleren i Kabul» (2002), awarded the Bokhandlerprisen prize in 2002.
For readers interested in Afghanistan, the country's recent history, and the role of books in the face of censorship.
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.
