by Åsne Seierstad · Virago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844081387
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«The Bookseller of Kabul» is Åsne Seierstad's non-fiction work, published by Virago in paperback (288 pages, in English).
After the fall of the Taliban regime, Åsne Seierstad lived with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul who for over twenty years defied communists and Taliban to bring books to his people. The book portrays Khan's family and shows the tensions between Khan's love of books and his strict ideas about the role of women.
Originally published in Norwegian in 2002 as «Bokhandleren i Kabul»; this English edition is from 2004. The work received the Bokhandlerprisen award in 2002.
For readers of non-fiction and memoirs interested in Afghanistan, recent history and the world of books.
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.
