by Åsne Seierstad, Diederik Grit · de Geus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789044526295
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«De boekhandelaar van Kaboel» is the essay by Åsne Seierstad, published by de Geus in paperback (286 pages, in Dutch).
After the fall of the Taliban, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lives for several months with the family of a bookseller in Kabul. Welcomed into the home, she wears the burka and takes part in the daily life of the women, while family tensions unfold in parallel with the reconstruction of a devastated Afghanistan that still holds on to hope.
Originally published in Norwegian in 2002 as «Bokhandleren i Kabul», it was awarded the Bokhandlerprisen prize. This Dutch edition dates from 2012.
For readers interested in the history of Afghanistan, the condition of women and narrative journalism.
Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
