Åsne Seierstad
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Family dysfunction, sexual failure, grotesque narcissism sad delusions and dreams of martyrdom – the chilling portrait of a killer. By Ian Buruma
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From Knut Hamsun's classic story of starvation to Karl Ove Knausgård's autobiographical opus, here is the novelist's pick of Norwegian books in translation
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Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad, who spent months with bookseller Shah Muhammad Rais, tells of relief over ruling
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The Afghan bookseller who inspired Asne Seierstad's bestseller has signed a deal to sell books into the UK
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Review: The Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya by Åsne Seierstad
The reader is taken into the heart of the bloody conflict, writes Alexandra Masters
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Timothy Phillips applauds Åsne Seierstad's moving exploration of the plight of the Chechens, The Angel of Grozny
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Asne Seierstad's The Angel of Grozny reports on the lies and misinformation that surround the war in Chechnya, says Viv Groskop
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When Åsne Seierstad returned to Chechnya, she discovered the real burden of Putin's Chechen campaigns was born by the children. She resolved to tell their story
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Ten years after her first foreign assignment in the First Chechen War, Åsne Seierstad returned to Grozny. In an exclusive extract from her new book, she shows Chechnya's torn reality through the eyes of its children
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Suraya Rais, the wife of the title character in Åsne Seierstad's bestselling The Bookseller of Kabul, is applying for asylum in Europe because she claims the book has endangered her life.
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Dusko Doder finds out how Serbs see themselves in Åsne Seierstad's With Their Backs to the World.
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Kim Bunce on The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
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Asne Seierstad's timely The Bookseller of Kabul was an international bestseller. Following that with a dissection of modern Serbia is bound to lose her readers. But she doesn't mind
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Åsne Seierstad's new book tells the human story of the US bombing of Baghdad. But what people really want to talk to her about, says Aida Edemariam, is her bruising fallout with the bookseller of Kabul.
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Asne Seierstad's book about an obscure Kabul bookseller and his family and their experience of surviving the tragedy of civil war is a world bestseller - but its subject, Mohammed Shah Rais, is an angry man. The young Norwegian writer had a good idea - to live with Mr Shah for a few months and write his story - and at the time he thought it was a good idea too. Now he says of the book: "It is defamation of me, my family and my nation."
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Veronica Horwell is captivated by an Afghan family in Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul
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Åsne Seierstad lifts the lid on Afghan family life in her fictionalised account of her time in Afghanistan, The Bookseller of Kabul
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