The bookseller of Kabul / (Record no. 41382)
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
|---|---|
| International Standard Book Number | 0316159417 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER | |
| International Standard Serial Number | 9780316159418 |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | a-af--- |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) | |
| Holding library | AJMA |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 958.10922 Sei |
| Item number | 15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 958.10922 Sei |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Seierstad, Asne |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The bookseller of Kabul / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Asne Seierstad; Translated by Ingrid Christophersen |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York. |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Back Bay Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xv, 288 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 19 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes a reading group guide. "First published in English [in slightly different form and without readers' guide] in Great Britain ... [and] in the U.S. in hardback by Little Brown and Company ... 2003"--Title page verso. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Foreword -- Proposal -- Burning books -- Crime and punishment -- Suicide and song -- Business trip -- Do you want to make me sad? -- No admission to heaven -- Billowing, fluttering, winding -- Third-rate wedding -- Matriarch -- Temptations -- Call from Ali -- Smell of dust -- Attempt -- Can God die? -- Dreary room -- Carpenter -- My mother Osama -- Broken heart -- Epilogue. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | From the Publisher: With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and of a country of great cultural riches and extreme contradictions. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities-whether Communist or Taliban-to supply books to the people of Kabul. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. Yet he had persisted in his passion for books, shedding light in one of the world's darkest places. This is the intimate portrait of a man of principle and of his family-two wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room house in this war ravaged city. But more than that, it is a rare look at contemporary life under Islam, where even after the Taliban's collapse, the women must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn and communicate with others. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 86542 |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Khan family. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Seierstad, Asne |
| Dates associated with a name | 1970- |
| General subdivision | Travel |
| Geographic subdivision | Afghanistan |
| -- | Kabol. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Booksellers and bookselling |
| Geographic subdivision | Afghanistan |
| -- | Kabol. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Kabol (Afghanistan) |
| Form subdivision | Biography. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Christophersen, Ingrid. |
| Relator code | Traslator |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | 900 - 999 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 12.95 | 958.10922 Sei | 86542 | 2007-08-01 |