The Bookseller of Kabul

Okay, so I read this book by Asne Seierstad. The way the press had raved about it, it was supposed to be something like Philip Gourevitch's book on Rwanda. Sadly, it isn't. There were two chapters that were good but they were not even half as good as the weakest chapters of Gourevitch's "We wish to inform...". But that is all. Rest of the book was not bad but there was nothing in it that we didn't know already. It is really the type of book that Europeans love to read on their summer vacations - the kind of book that makes you feel so thankful that you are European before you go for your vacation to Africa, or Asia and feel thankful that you are European, and then return home to feel thankful that you are European. Some of it was pretty repetative especially about the veiling of women in the Ninja Burka - the Shuttlecock Burka. I will write more about it later.