This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of Afghan women and a window into the surprising realities of daily life in today's Afghanistan.
This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to...
From beloved international reporter Asne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed. Seierstad traveled extensively through Serbia between 1999 and 2004, following the lives of people from across the political spectrum. Her moving and perceptive account follows nationalists, Titoists, Yugonostalgics, rock stars, fugitives, and poets. Seierstad brings her acclaimed attention to detail to bear on the lives of those whom she...
From beloved international reporter Asne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevi...
Presents an insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramatic events leading up to his fall. This book follows fourteen Serbs whose lives were transformed over the course of sixteen months. With characteristic perception, it offers
Presents an insight into the lives of ordinary Serbs under Milosevic and the dramatic events leading up to his fall. This book follows fourteen Serbs ...
The conflict in Chechnya was the first war that Asne Seierstad covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya and discovers that though the world's attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, killing ten to 15 percent of the population and leaving a brutalised society with a particular toll on its children."
The conflict in Chechnya was the first war that Asne Seierstad covered. Now ten years later, she returns to Chechnya and discovers that though the wor...
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a NYT Bestseller
Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, Asne Seierstad's One of Us is essential reading for a time when mass killings are so grimly frequent.
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utoya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party....
One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 and a NYT Bestseller
