THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL.
by Seierstad, Asne
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316726052
- ISBN 13
- 9780316726054
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About This Item
Boston:: Little Brown,, (2003). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). 2nd printing. An account of the time Seierstad spent living with the family of thirteen in their four-roomed home. "Bookseller Sultan Khan defied the authorities for twenty years 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. The result is an intimate and fascinating portrait of a family which also offers a unique perspective on a troubled country." Translated by Ingrid Christophersen. 288 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL.
- Author
- Seierstad, Asne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316726052
- ISBN 13
- 9780316726054
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- (2003)
- Keywords
- bookselling, literature in translation, journalist, biography, afghanistan,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Central Asia and the Middle East;
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