Life And Society / Conflict

Åsne Seierstad: The Afghans

10:05 am on 20 July 2024

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Award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad, studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, documenting it in her book The Bookseller of Kabul.  Twenty years later, with the Taliban back in power, Seierstad shares the story of her return to Afghanistan to explore life under the current regime through three individuals and their families in her latest book The Afghans.

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