abstract:The Bookseller of Kabul is a non-fiction book written by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, about a bookseller, Shah Muhammad Rais (whose name was changed to Sultan Khan), and his family in Kabul, Afghanistan. It takes a novelistic approach, focusing on characters and the daily issues that they face.
Popular western books such as TheBooksellerofKabul and the Dressmaker of Khair Khana speak to the entrepreneurial spirit ofthe Afghan people, and later works such as The Beauty School ofKabul illustrate the value of vocational training for women provided by such groups.