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The Bookseller of Kabul
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Journal Entry 3 by
The book arrived today, thanks bekainindia!From the back cover: "On a freezing cold afternoon in November, a bonfire blazed on the roundabout at Charhai-e-Sadarat in Kabul. Street children gathered round the flames that cast dancing shadows across their dirty faces... The religious police conscientiously went to work in Sultan Khan's bookshop that afternoon. Any books containing pictures of living things, be they human or animal, were torn from shelves and tossed on the fire. Yellowed pages, innocent postcards and dried-out covers from old reference books were sacrificed to the flames... Finally only ashes remained, caught by the wind and swirled with the dust and dirt in the streets and sewers of Kabul. The bookseller, bereft of his beloved books, was bundled into a car, a Taliban soldier on either side." Synopsis Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict. In the following spring she returned to live with a bookseller and his family for several months. The Bookseller of Kabul is the fascinating account of her time 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. |
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Released 8 mos ago (9/13/2011 UTC) at Helsinki, Uusimaa Finland CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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