Title : The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad - book
Summary :
Asne Seierstad lived through the spring following the defeat of the Taliban at Sultan Khan's, a bookseller in Kabul. In this vivid and always respectful account, she shares with us the daily lives of the wives, children, brothers, and sisters of a family whose destiny is rich with emotion and whose undisputed leader is Sultan, the book lover.
"When the communists arrived," he says, "they burned all my books. Then there were the mujahideen, too busy fighting among themselves to worry about me, but once the Taliban regime was installed, my books were once again condemned to the stake."
Through this gripping chronicle, we discover a multifaceted Afghanistan, a country in ruins and in full renaissance where a people timidly try to free themselves from the past in the hope of a better life.
Asne Seierstad recounts in detail the daily life of this Kabul family. A fascinating account of a woman who has sympathy for the Khans and for Afghanistan, but whose Nordic ßegma is severely tested by an often unbearable reality that humiliates and destroys. Bernard Pivot, The Sunday Journal.
- EAN: 9782253072836
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