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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other ... compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMES For more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. A committed Muslim, Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship. Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there and the year after she lived with an Afghan family for several months. We learn of proposals and marriages, suppression and abuse of power, crime and punishment. The result is a gripping and moving portrait of a family, and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history. 'Fascinating ... A portrait of people struggling to survive in the most brutal circumstances' DAILY MAIL
| EAN: | 9781844080472 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2004 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Seierstad, Asne |
| Übersetzung: | Christophersen, Ingrid |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 276 |
| Keyword: | afghanistan; family life; 9/11; bestselling books; islam; muslim; family; richard and judy; christina lamb; reading lolita in tehran; september 11; september 11th; 911; nine eleven; 9 11; bookshop; bookselling; kiterunner; kite runner; splendid suns; taliban; communist; communism; islamic; muslim life; muslim family; afghanistan words; afghanistan history; afghanistan books; afghanistan war books; women in Afghanistan; afghan women; afghan women survive twenty; afghan war |
| Fachschema: | Afghanistan / Landeskunde, Kultur, Gesellschaft~Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte~Militärgeschichte~Krieg - Kriegsopfer |
| Fachkategorie: | Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte~Asiatische Geschichte~Orte und Menschen: Sachbuch, Bildbände~Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein~Biografien: historisch, politisch, militärisch~Moderne Kriegsführung, Militärgeschichte: Nachkriegs-Konflikte |
| Region: | Afghanistan~Naher und Mittlerer Osten |
| Zeitraum: | Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.)~erste Hälfte 21. Jahrhundert (2000 bis 2050 n. Chr.) |
| Imprint-Titels: | Virago Press |
| Text Sprache: | eng |
| Verlag: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 125 mm |
| Höhe: | 19 mm |
| Gewicht: | 230 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB) |