Ebook {Epub PDF} The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad

Now with the success of her book The Bookseller of Kabul, it looks like Seierstad will achieve fame outside of Scandinavia. After September 11, Seierstad went as a war reporter to Afghanistan with the Northern alliance. In Kabul, she became acquainted with the bookseller Sultan Khan.  · A story reported on the outcome of a lawsuit lodged in Oslo against Åsne Seierstad, author of The Bookseller of Kabul, by a member of the Afghan family portrayed in Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins. Asne Seierstad has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, China, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She has received numerous awards for her journalism. She is the author of A Hundred and One Days as well as The Bookseller of Kabul, an international bestseller that has been translated into twenty-six languages. Seierstad makes her home in Norway and travels frequently to the United bltadwin.ru by:

Bokhandleren i Kabul = The Bookseller of Kabul, Åsne Seierstad The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais (whose name was changed to Sultan Khan), and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan, published in Norwegian in and English in It takes a novelist approach, focusing on characters and the daily. The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais (whose name was changed to Sultan Khan), and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan, published in Norwegian in and English in It takes a novelistic approach, focusing on characters and the daily issues that they face. This is my first video about The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad. It is designed to help you make sense of the large, complex family group in the novel.

From Publishers Weekly. After living for three months with the Kabul bookseller Sultan Khan in the spring of , Norwegian journalist Seierstad penned this astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing political flux and mired in misogyny and poverty. The Bookseller of Kabul is a work of non-fiction by journalist Asne Seierstad. The book came from Seierstad's journey to the Khan family's home in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she lived for a number of weeks. The main characters in the story are the many members of the Khan family, including Sultan Khan, the patriarch of the house, who worked as a bookseller in the city. Book Summary. 'An admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand. Seierstad writes of individuals but her message is larger' -- Washington Post Book World. In Afghanistan, just after the fall of the Taliban, a bookseller named Sultan Khan allowed a western journalist to move into his home and experience firsthand his family's life in the newly liberated capital city of Kabul.