The Bookseller of Kabul
Non Fiction 2018. 1. 1. 18:54 |
The Bookseller of Kabul
by Åsne Seierstad
“What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.”
“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books solely for boys - did not calculate in apples and cakes, but in bullets and kalasnikovs. Something like this: 'little Omar has a kalasnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine. He uses two thirds of the bullets and kills sixty infidels does he kill with each bullet?”
"Lucky the armed half-wits did not look behind the shelves, Sultan thought on his way to detention. The most prohibited books he had stashed away ingeniously. He brought them out only if someone asked specially for them and if he thought he could trust the person who asked,"
"In Afghanistan a woman's longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes' notion of honor and by the mullahs. Young people have no right to meet, to love, or to choose. Love has little to do with romance; on the contrary, love can be interpreted as committing a serious crime, punishable by death,"
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