by Åsne Seierstad · Virago Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844080472
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«The Bookseller of Kabul» is the non-fiction book by Åsne Seierstad, published by Virago Press Ltd in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In the spring of 2002, Åsne Seierstad lived with bookseller Sultan Khan and his family in Kabul. The book shows how Khan defied communists and Taliban to keep selling books, and portrays Afghan domestic life: marriage proposals, the role of women, and the tension between a passion for books and rigid customs.
Originally published in Norwegian as «Bokhandleren i Kabul», with an English translation by Ingrid Christophersen. The work won the Bokhandlerprisen in 2002.
For readers interested in memoirs, reportage and non-fiction about Afghanistan, family life and societies under oppressive 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.
