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The Bookseller of Kabul

The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais (whose name was changed to Sultan Khan), and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan.


Åsne Seierstad

There are contradictory accounts regarding Seierstad's legal battles concerning Shah Muhammad Rais (the bookseller portrayed in The Bookseller of Kabul).

The Bookseller of Kabul, her second, bestselling book, is an account of the time she spent living with an Afghan family in Kabul after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.


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