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The Bookseller Of Kabul: The International Bestseller - 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other' SUNDAY TIMES - Softcover
Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months.
For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock in attics all over Kabul.
But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship, he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. As an outsider, Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women - including Khan's two wives - and the more public lives of the men. And so we learn of proposals and marriages, suppression and abuse of power, crime and punishment. The result is a gripping and moving portrait of a family, and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history.
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Written sometimes more like fiction than fact ... this is 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 (Independent)
Fascinating ... a colourful portrait of people struggling to survive in the most brutal circumstances ... bear[s] witness to the power of literature to withstand even the most repressive regime (Michael Arditti, Daily Mail)
A unique insight into another world as the Norwegian answer to Kate Adie shares the life of a family in Kabul (Daily Mirror)
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Fascinating ... a colourful portrait of people struggling to survive in the most brutal circumstances ... bear[s] witness to the power of literature to withstand even the most repressive regime (Michael Arditti, Daily Mail)
A unique insight into another world as the Norwegian answer to Kate Adie shares the life of a family in Kabul (Daily Mirror)
* The international bestseller: 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other ... a compelling read' Christina Lamb, SUNDAY TIMES
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The international bestseller: 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other.a compelling read' Christina Lamb, SUNDAY TIMESFor more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. In spring 2002 award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. 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. The result is a unique portrait of a family and a country. '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.[Seierstad] was fascinated by everything she witnessed, and her curiosity and perceptive eye colours every page' INDEPENDENT * The international bestseller: 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other . a compelling read' Christina Lamb, SUNDAY TIMES Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781844080472
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Bücher waren Sultans Leben. Seit er sein erstes Buch in der Schule bekommen hatte, begeisterte er sich für Bücher. Für Bücher und Geschichten.' Eigentlich ist er Ingenieur, doch Sultan Khan kann von Büchern nicht lassen. Auch wenn das Geschäft mit dem geschriebenen Wort seine Tücken hat. Wie viel Geschäftssinn bedarf es, um in einem Land fast ohne Verlage in Basaren und Bibliotheken die Ware aufzutreiben Was tun, wenn bei den wechselnden Vorlieben der Regime abends wieder einmal Bücher mit verbotenen Abbildungen in Flammen aufgehen Und wo treibt man den Esel auf, der die Raubdrucke über das Gebirge nach Pakistan bringen soll Die Geschichten, die die norwegische Journalistin Asne Seierstad in den fünf Monaten ihresAufenthaltes bei Sultan Khan bis zum Juni 2002 hörte und erlebte, fügen sich zu einer Familiengeschichte der ganz besonderen Art - auch und vor allem, weil die Frauen darin eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Wie sich Sultans Werbung um eine zweite Ehefrau widersetzen Und was tun, wenn die Tochter zwar studieren darf, er sie ansonsten aber - ganz Patriarch im Sinne des Propheten - wie sein Eigentum behandelt Denn dass eine Frau ihren eigenen Weg geht, das ist in Kabul nicht vorstellbar. 276 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9781844080472
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