Bokhandleren i Kabul

Åsne Seierstad · first published 2002 · ISBN 9780316734509

A Norwegian journalist's intimate account of life with an Afghan bookseller's family in Kabul following the September 11 attacks. The book examines the constraints on Afghan women, tensions between tradition and modernization, and daily survival under political upheaval. Through detailed personal narratives, Seierstad offers a window into private family dynamics during a transformative moment in Afghan history.