Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Book Review Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction Buy Book ▾ Amazon Local Booksellers Barnes and Noble When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. BySuzy Hansen May 4, 2018 TWO SISTERS A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey Into the Syrian Jihad Asne Seierstad’s 2003 book, “The Bookseller of Kabul,” sold more than a million copies and landed the author in court. In the book, Seierstad portrays the inner workings of an Afghan family with whom she lived for several months: the patriarch’s acquisition of a second wife, the perils of flirting in a conservative society, the tyrannical behavior of men and the suffering of women. The patriarch — the bookseller of the title — claimed that Seierstad misrepresented him as a brute, violated the sanctity of his household and jeopardized his family’s lives. “Surely it is the Afghan culture that puts these young women at risk,” Seierstad said at the time. One of the bookseller’s wives sued Seierstad for invasion of privacy, though she was eventually cleared of the charges. These were the days after Sept. 11, during… Read full this story
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