by Asne Seierstad · Little, Brown & Co. · tapa dura · ISBN 9780316726054
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«The Bookseller of Kabul» is the non-fiction account by Åsne Seierstad, published by Little, Brown & Co. in hardcover, with 256 pages and text in English.
Åsne Seierstad lived for four months with bookseller Sultan Khan and his family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban. For over twenty years, Khan defied communists and Taliban alike to bring books to the city. The work contrasts the male public world with the female one, including Khan's two wives, caught between tradition and modernity.
Originally published in Norwegian as «Bokhandleren i Kabul» (2002); the English translation is by Ingrid Christophersen. Winner of the Norwegian Bokhandlerprisen award.
For readers of narrative journalism, memoirs and travel writing interested in Afghanistan and family life under repressive regimes.
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.
