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

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