Books: The Bookseller of Kabul
May 10, 2008 | Afghanistan,Books
I just finished reading The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad. Anyone else?
Posted by Becky @ 10:25 pm
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May 11th, 2008 at 9:23 am
You know, I read that with my book club last year, and I can’t remember anything about it. Except that I thought it felt like an unsuccessful straddle of fiction and non-fiction.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Wow~ I’m really surprised by Maggie’s comment! I read that book a while back and it still haunts me. Thinking of those girls. It just kills me inside. I finished it right before my hubby went back to Iraq for another tour. I told him he could bring us back a dozen muslim girls to adopt pleaze. I genuinely wanted to rush to Afghanistan and just kidnap some girls. So much potential but just sadness in the end. And this man is considered progressive? I can’t imagine how there is much hope for Afghani women…