Afghánci - Tři příběhy z jedné země – Seierstad Asne (2024)

Afghanistan? It's jihad, sharia, opium, and wild cannabis. Yes, those are the stereotypes. And now imagine, for example, an Islamic feminist. Is that impossible? Not at all. This is one of the many faces of Afghanistan that we have come to know intimately thanks to the great Norwegian reporter Asne Seierstad. In her latest book, she returns to the scene and examines what has happened to this country after the Americans left.
First, Afghanistan faced the Soviet Union, then it was ravaged by internal disputes and civil war, followed by the harsh hand of the Islamists, and finally, the war with the USA. How did ordinary people live during these turbulent decades?
In her latest book, Afghans, the popular Norwegian reporter Asne Seierstad returns to Afghanistan twenty years after she wrote the phenomenal book The Bookseller of Kabul. She tells us the stories of those who had to flee from the Taliban, as well as those who stayed in Afghanistan. The book is an intimate portrait of three people with different fates and their families, friends, and acquaintances - and it is also the story of a country in an endless struggle.
Jamila rejected the fate that was predetermined for her, and despite her physical disability and the hostility of her surroundings, she graduated, fought for women's rights, and tried to change the direction of her country.