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With The Bookseller of Kabul , award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience 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. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authoritieswhether Communist or Talibanto 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 had 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 familytwo wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room house in this war ravaged city. But more than that, it is a rare look at contemporary life under Islam, where even after the Taliban's collapse, the women must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn and communicate with others. About the Author Asne Seierstad is an award-winning journalist who has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Zakup książki
The Bookseller of Kabul, Åsne Seierstad
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2003
- Oprawa
- (twarda)
Metody płatności
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- Tytuł
- The Bookseller of Kabul
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Åsne Seierstad
- Wydawca
- Little, Brown & Company
- Rok wydania
- 2003
- Oprawa
- twarda
- Liczba stron
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0316734500
- ISBN13
- 9780316734509
- Seria
- Kategorie
- Tagi
- Tematy religijne, Rodzina, Kobiety, Prawdziwe historie, Relacje, Wojny, Prezenty dla kobiet, Azja, Nadzieja, Życie codzienne, Relacje rodzinne, O książkach, Genealogia, Teraźniejszość, Oparte na faktach, Doświadczenia, Niebezpieczeństwo, Afganistan, Muzułmanie, Literatura norweska, Księgarnie, Małżeństwo Zaaranżowane, Różnice kulturowe, Kobiety muzułmańskie, Taliban, Rzadkie książki, Kabul
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 2002
- Oryginalna nazwa
- Bokhandleren i Kabul, et familiedrama
- Ocena
- 3,8 z 5
- Opis
- With The Bookseller of Kabul , award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience 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. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authoritieswhether Communist or Talibanto 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 had 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 familytwo wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room house in this war ravaged city. But more than that, it is a rare look at contemporary life under Islam, where even after the Taliban's collapse, the women must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn and communicate with others. About the Author Asne Seierstad is an award-winning journalist who has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.