After living with the Kabul bookseller Sultan Khan for three months in the spring of 2002, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad penned this astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing political flux and mired in misogyny and poverty. Now among the most widely read accounts of Afghanistan after the Taliban, Seierstad's experiences – told first hand – are not to be missed.
Norwegian journalist and author, born 10 February,1970. Author of the bestselling books The Bookseller of Kabul about Afghanistan, 101 Days from the war in Iraq and With Their Backs to the World from Serbia. Graduated in Russian and philosophy at Oslo University, and worked as a foreign correspondent for several Scandinavian newspapers and TV-stations in Russia (1993-96), China (1997), The Balkans (1999-2001), Afghanistan (2001-02), Iraq (2003) and the US (2004). She is known for letting people speak for themselves, to tell their real stories, the stories we don't see on the news – stories that need time.
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