The bookseller of Kabul Written by Mark Piccolo on April 2nd, 2008. Book Rating: 3/5; The bookseller of Kabul is a good read. Had a few more characters than I would have liked and was at times a bit puzzling to listen to on the daily commute in traffic. How to Download Audio Book Torrents with Bittorrent Without a torrent client or downloader, it is impossible to use the above mentioned sites to download your desired audio books. Torrent clients like Bittorrent are perfect for all kinds of operating systems and devices and enable you to quickly download any kinds of files.
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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.
Publication Details
There Once Was A Bookseller In Kabul
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint:
- Virago
- Publication Date:
- 2008
Format
Asne Seierstad (Author)
The Bookseller Of Kabul Summary
Åsne Seierstad was born in 1970 and studied Russian, Spanish and the History of Philosophy at Oslo University. An internationally bestselling author, she has also received numerous awards for her journalism. She has worked as a war correspondent a...
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