喀布尔的书商 The Bookseller of Kabul
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作者： Asne Seierstad 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2007-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 288印刷时间： 2007/12/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780316159418包装： 平装内容简介
After living for three months with the Kabul bookseller Sultan Khan in the spring of 2002, Norwegian journalist Seierstad penned this astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing political flux and mired in misogyny and poverty. As a Westerner, she has the privilege of traveling between the worlds of men and women, and though the book is ostensibly a portrait of Khan, its real strength is the intimacy and brutal honesty with which it portrays the lives of Afghani living under fundamentalist Islam. Seierstad also expertly outlines Sultan's fight to preserve whatever he can of the literary life of the capital during its numerous decades of warfare (he stashed some 10,000 books in attics around town). Seierstad, though only 31, is a veteran war reporter and a skilled observer; as she hides behind her burqa, the men in the Sultan's family become so comfortable with her presence that she accompanies one of Sultan's sons on a religious pilgrimage and witnesses another buy sex from a beggar girl-then offer her to his brother. This is only one of many equally shocking stories Seierstad uncovers. In another, an adulteress is suffocated by her three brothers as ordered by their mother. Seierstad's visceral account is equally seductive and repulsive and resembles the work of Martha Gellhorn. An international bestseller, it will likely stand as one of the best books of reportage of Afghan life after the fall of the Taliban.
作者简介：
Asne Seierstad has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan,and Iraq. She is fluent in. five languages and lives in Norway.
目录
Foreword
The Proposal
Burning Books
Crime and Punishment
Suicide and Song
The Business Trip
Do You Want to Make Me Sad?
No Admission to Heaven
Billowing, Fluttering, Winding
A Third-Rate Wedding
The Matriarch
Temptations
The Call from Ali
The Smell of Dust
An Attempt
Can God Die?
The God Die?
The Dreary Room
The Carpenter
My Mother Osama
A Broken Heart
Epilogue
