by Asne Seierstad · Little, Brown and Company · tapa dura · ISBN 9780316734509
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«The Bookseller of Kabul» is the journalistic chronicle by Åsne Seierstad, published by Little, Brown and Company in hardcover (304 pages, in English).
Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lives with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family. She portrays Afghan society after the Taliban: the passion for books against censorship, family life, arranged marriages, and restrictions on women.
The work was translated from Norwegian into English by Ingrid Christophersen. This edition includes a reading group guide.
For readers interested in Afghanistan, narrative journalism, and the situation of women in Islamic societies.
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.
