The bookseller of Kabul
By: Åsne Seierstad ; translated by Ingrid Christophersen.
Contributors: Christophersen, Ingrid.
Publisher: RB Large Print
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Prince Frederick, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Khan family; Seierstad, Åsne, -- 1970- -- Travel -- Afghanistan -- Kabul; Booksellers and bookselling -- Afghanistan -- Kabul; Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Work titles: Bokhandleren i Kabul.
Description: This the daily life of a middle-class family in Kabul, the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul. Sultan has lived through several represive regimes, all of which burned and censored his books. Now with the Taliban gone, he is free to pursue his business and his dreams of turning his large collection into a library for Afghanistan.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company.