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Book Review of The Bookseller of Kabul

The Bookseller of Kabul
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This is a brutally depressing book compounded by the fact that the stories within, as witnessed by or told to the author, are all true. The story of the carpenter and his starving family members will haunt me for some time as will the various depictions of how the "bookseller" treated the women in his own extended family.