The Bookseller Of Kabul
(Asne Seierstad)
The Bookseller of Kabul is one of the biggest Norway bestsellers. It tells the story of a journalist, war correspondent that, after having covered the Northern Alliance offensive against the taliban, headed to Kabul where she met Sultan Khan, the most important bookseller of his country and also the eldest, with 30 years of business. He had been detained, interrogated, arrested but still he resisted, giving his country, where more than half of the population is illiterate, a cultural contribution. From that relationship between the western woman and the convict muslim, it was created the opportunity for Asne to write a book where she would reveal the quotidian of a nation. Sharing the afghan intimacy she could know what is to be a woman in that world. And this way, during three months and covered by a burka she lived in the bookseller's house sharing with him and his family small pleasures, secrets, forbbiden loves and big deceptions. The fundamentalist side of Sultan, a real tyrant indoors, gave her the dimension of such deep rooted traditions that continue to hold even when they are not imposed by the governors. The author, Asne Seierstad, has a degree in Russian and Spanish Philology, from Oslo University. In the last ten years she has been working has a war correspondent through several scandinavian medias.
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