The Bookseller of Kabul

by Asne Seierstad | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 1844080471 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Hayes13 of Roma, Lazio Italy on 2/13/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by Hayes13 from Roma, Lazio Italy on Sunday, February 13, 2011
For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities, whether communist or Taliban, to supply books to the people of Kabul. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. Yet he has persisted in his passion for books, shedding light in one of the world's darkest places.

This is the intimate portrait of a man of principle and of his family - two wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room apartment in this war-ravaged city. As they endure the extraordinary trials and tensions of Afghanistan's upheavals, they also still try to live ordinary lives, with work, relaxation, shopping, cooking, marriages, rivalries, and shared joys. Most of all, this is an intimate portrait of family life under Islam.

Even after the Taliban's collapse, the women in Khan's family must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn, and communicate with others. Seierstad lived with Khan's family for months, experiencing first-hand Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Stepping back from the page, she allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and of a country of great cultural riches and extreme contradictions.


This will go into my "VBB in English for the Italian Forum"

Journal Entry 2 by Hayes13 at -- via posta o passaggio a mano --, Emilia Romagna Italy on Monday, January 2, 2012

Released 12 yrs ago (1/2/2012 UTC) at -- via posta o passaggio a mano --, Emilia Romagna Italy

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Here it is, finally.

Wishing you a Happy New Year filled with lovely books.

Journal Entry 3 by Gahan at Ziano Piacentino, Emilia Romagna Italy on Thursday, January 12, 2012
The book is here! Many thanks and Happy New Year to you too!

Journal Entry 4 by Gahan at Ziano Piacentino, Emilia Romagna Italy on Thursday, March 3, 2016
Finally I got into the right mood to read this book.
I really enjoyed it. Of course the story is very hard, but it is written in a journalistic style very easy to read.
I already have a couple of friends who asked to borrow it.

Journal Entry 5 by Gahan at Bookexchange Fornello in Ziano Piacentino, Emilia Romagna Italy on Monday, August 26, 2019

Released 4 yrs ago (8/26/2019 UTC) at Bookexchange Fornello in Ziano Piacentino, Emilia Romagna Italy

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