The Bookseller Of Cabul
(Asne Seierstad)
For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan faced the authorities, in such a way communist how much of the Talibã, to provide books to the inhabitants with Cabul. It was imprisoned, interrogated, jailed and attended to the soldiers talibãs to burn stacks and stacks of books in the streets. Still thus, he persisted in its passion for books.It arrived to hide thousand of units in attics for the city, being fed the dream to see its quantity of 10 a thousand volumes on history and Afghan literature to be transformed into the nucleus of a new National Library, sowing some light in one of the places shadiest of the world. After living three months in Cabul, with the Sultan bookseller Khan, Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad composed this picture of the extreme contradictions and the wealth of this country.A story of the daily one of an Islamic family and of the difficulties of this people to get knowledge and if to communicate. A close picture of a man, its principles and its family; while they face the challenges and daily tensions, the integrant ones of the family also try to live a certain normality by means of the work, of one day of purchases, cooking at a moment and if amusing in the other, marrying and dividing joys.The women, in special, are protagonists of impressive stories. Exactly after the fall of the Talibã, arranged marriages, poligâmicos husbands and the limitations are submitted it to travel, to study and if to communicate with the others. These and many other histories compose this narrative, showing aspects of the country that few foreigners would testify. By means of an involving narrative, Asne Seierstad gives to voice to the family Khan, presenting to the reader a collection of impressive personages that reflects the contradictions of the Afeganistão.
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