by Asne Seierstad · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467208481
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«El librero de Kabul» is the non-fiction account by Åsne Seierstad published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (283 pages, in Spanish).
After the fall of the Taliban regime, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lives with the family of bookseller Sultán Khan in Kabul. The book portrays the daily life of an Afghan family divided between tradition and modernity, and shows how war and fanaticism condition their relationships, especially the situation of women.
Work originally published as «Bokhandleren i Kabul» in 2002, the year it received the Bokhandlerprisen award.
For those seeking a non-fiction account of Afghanistan, life under the Taliban and the condition of women.
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.
