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“This is really a fantastically written book by a Norwegian journalist who went to stay with an Afghan family for a few months. And the reason why it is so cleverly written is because it is written as a story but it is actually based on the author’s own experience of living with this family called Khan. She writes it in a literary way – we are reading about characters, their feelings and what they are thinking. But it’s based on what she was told by various people from the Khan family.” Read more...
Shazia Khan, Journalist
The Bookseller of Kabul by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad is an international bestseller depicting daily life in Afghanistan over three decades of war and repression, based on the family she lived with in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. It’s full of interesting insights into life in Kabul, and in particular the struggles of Aghani women.
