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The Bookseller of Kabul

Åsne Seierstad

What does life look like inside one Afghan family, ruled by a bookseller who risked prison to save his country's books?

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Author
Åsne Seierstad

Why read it

  • You will see how a man can defend freedom in public yet demand obedience at home
  • You will understand how rules about honor, marriage and love shape the days of ordinary women in Afghanistan
  • You will know what a series of regimes did to a country's books and to the people who kept them

Who it is for

  • Readers who want Afghanistan seen through a household
  • Anyone interested in women's lives under strict social rules
  • Book lovers drawn to stories about protecting books

Contents

  1. Åsne Seierstad The Bookseller of Kabul
  2. Foreword
  3. The Proposal
  4. Burning Books
  5. Crime and Punishment
  6. Suicide and Song
  7. Do You Want My Unhappiness?
  8. No Admission to Heaven
  9. Billowing, Fluttering, Winding
  10. A Third-rate Wedding
  11. The Matriarch
  12. Temptations
  13. The Call from Ali
  14. The Smell of Dust
  15. An Attempt
  16. Can God Die?
  17. The Dreary Room
  18. The Carpenter
  19. ‘The carpenter.’
  20. My Mother Osama
  21. A Broken Heart
  22. Epilogue
  23. Åsne Seierstad

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