num_pages: 7
description: Sultan Khan supplied the people of Kābol with books in defiance of the Communist Party and the Taliban. He was imprisoned by the Communists and stood by reluctantly as the illiterate Taliban soldiers burned his books in the street. The author, Åsne Seierstad, spent four months with Khan and his family observing how his books became a symbol of freedom.
title: The Bookseller Of Kabul
titlecomplete: The Bookseller Of Kabul
characters: Feroza, Fazil, Bibi Gul, Leila, Mansur, Sonya, Aimal, Shakila, Sultan Khan, Yunus, Sharifa, Eqbal, Bulbula, Mariam
genres: Travel, Nonfiction, History, Cultural, Asia, Memoir, Books About Books, Islam, Biography Memoir, Biography
ratings_count: 52593
places: Kabul
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Bokhandlerprisen
publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks