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The bookseller of Kabul / Åsne Seierstad ; translated by Ingrid Christophersen.

Summary:

Capturing the harsh realities of life in modern-day Afghanistan and the plight of Afghan women, the Norwegian journalist provides a portrait of a committed Muslim man, a bookseller, and his family living in post-Taliban Kabul, Afghanistan. Reading Group Guide included.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0316734500
  • ISBN: 9780316734509
  • ISBN: 0316159417
  • ISBN: 9780316159418
  • Physical Description: xv, 287 pages ; 19 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 2003.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Proposal 3 -- Burning Books 9 -- Crime and Punishment 23 -- Suicide and Song 37 -- Business Trip 41 -- Do You Want to Make Me Sad? 67 -- No Admission to Heaven 80 -- Billowing, Fluttering, Winding 84 -- A Third-Rate Wedding 94 -- Matriarch 106 -- Temptations 122 -- Call from Ali 131 -- Smell of Dust 163 -- An Attempt 181 -- Can God Die? 194 -- Dreary Room 204 -- Carpenter 214 -- My Mother Osama 245 -- A Broken Heart 267.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.4 13 83256.
Subject:
Khan family.
Seierstad, Åsne, 1970- > Travel > Afghanistan > Kabul.
Seierstad, Åsne, 1970- > Travel > Afghanistan > Kābol.
Booksellers and bookselling > Afghanistan > Kabul.
Booksellers and bookselling > Afghanistan > Kābol.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Biography.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Social life and customs.
Genre:
Biographies.

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