My Dear Kabul is a deeply moving collection that captures the voices of Afghan people whose stories might otherwise go unheard. Published by Untold Narratives CIC, a community interest company dedicated to amplifying marginalised voices, the book gathers personal testimonies, letters, and reflections centred on Kabul — a city that…
Åsne Seierstad, the Norwegian journalist whose earlier work The Bookseller of Kabul brought Afghanistan’s intimate realities to a global readership, returns to the country she knows deeply with The Afghans. This time, she structures her narrative around three individuals whose lives illuminate the full arc of Afghanistan’s modern tragedy: a…
Åsne Seierstad’s The Bookseller of Kabul is a compelling and intimate portrait of Afghan society in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Taliban. A Norwegian journalist, Seierstad lived for several months with the family of Shah Muhammad Rais, a passionate and complex bookseller who had defied successive regimes…
Few historical events have cast a longer shadow over the modern world than the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and few writers seem better equipped to excavate its ruins than Scott Anderson.
