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Jan 22, 2015WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An intimate and unusual account of a Norwegian journalist’s four month stay with an Afghan bookstore owner and his family. The bookseller, on the surface a liberal intellectual, is a tyrannical patriarch in private, and perpetuates his society’s repression of women. Seierstad’s revelations of the situation Afghan women face are shocking and depressing.