'A remarkable portrait, with deftly woven accounts of weddings and journeys, books and bookselling, relations and squabbles, firmly anchored by pleasing details about food and customs, all set against the backdrop of a derelict city, filthy and crammed but not defeated. She is the author of A Hundred and One Days as well as The Bookseller of Kabul, an international bestseller that has been translated into. The result is a unique portrait of a family and a country. She has received numerous awards for her journalism. As she steps back from the page and lets the Khans tell their stories, we learn of proposals and marriages, hope and fear, crime and punishment.
In spring 2002 award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. The international bestseller: 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other.a compelling read' Christina Lamb, SUNDAY TIMES For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. sne Seierstad, a Norwegian freelance journalist who wrote The Bookseller of Kabul after spending months living with Afghan bookseller Shah Muhammad Rais and his two wives, told the.
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