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Narrator: Ingrid Christophersen
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Ethnic Cultures - General
Discs: 7
With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and of a country of great cultural riches and extreme contradictions. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities wheth