Synopsis
Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne 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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About the Author
Asne Seierstad (born 1970) has worked as a war correspondent in Russia, China, Kosovo and Iraq. Two weeks after 9/11 she went to Afghanistan and reported on the conflict for various Scandinavian papers and TV. She has received numerous awards in Norway for her journalism.
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Condition: Bueno. : Sumérgete en la vida de Sultan Khan, un librero de Kabul que durante más de veinte años desafió a comunistas y talibanes para llevar libros a su pueblo. Åsne Seierstad, periodista galardonada, nos ofrece un retrato íntimo de su familia, explorando las tensiones entre la pasión de Khan por los libros y sus estrictas convicciones musulmanas. A través de la mirada de Seierstad, somos testigos de matrimonios, supresión, abusos de poder y la lucha de un país por liberarse de su historia. EAN: 9781844081387 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia Título: The Bookseller of Kabul Autor: Åsne Seierstad Editorial: Virago Idioma: en Páginas: 288 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-09-11-5cf98852
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