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Convincing account ... • • • • • (bewertet mit 5 von 5 Punkten) Alle meine Rezensionen ansehen Rezension bezieht sich auf: The Bookseller of Kabul. (Virago) (Taschenbuch) ... of the the dismal servanthood of women under Islam on Afghanistan. Written in the context of the life of the women of and near to a relatively modern and tolerant Afghan who loves books, and who survived both the Russians and the Taleban. Accounts of the hospitality and lives of men under Islam are quite sympathetic (see the fantastic books of hiking, mountain climbing, and adventure by Wilfred Thesiger and Eric Newby, and also the more recent one by Jason Elliott), but the lives of women, not told in those books, are lives of repression and servitude. One might tend to discount Seierstad's account for 'lack of understanding' because she's Norwegian, and Scandinavia (thank God!) is the home of male-female equality, of feminism in its best form. However, there is also Siba Shakib's (earlier) parallel account of the misery of Islamic women ("Nach Afghanistan kommt Gott nur noch zum Weinen"), following the life of a dirt-poor refugee and her growing family, and Shakib is Iranian. I recommend that you read both books and judge for yourself. Shakib points out that Kabul girls were forced by the Russians either to go to school to learn to read and write, or go to prison, and that that was effectively an act of long-term liberation for the women. It made them rebellious. The ideal in Afghanistan is that of a servile, uneducated woman who does not question the man. That standard was made extremely severe by the outrageous pre-medieval fundamentalist rules imposed by the Taleban. A list of the puritanic rules imposed by the Taleban is given in one of Seierstad's chapters. For an entire book that takes the outlawing of kites, e.g., as its theme, see "Drachenlåufer", also first rate literature, written by an Afghan-American. This review is based on the Swedish translation, "Bokhandlaren i Kabul" (bought at a gas station while travelling north on E-6 this summer), is fascinating, and is closest to the Norwegian original. Maybe the books by Seierstad, Shakib, and Hosseini are three of the most informative books in our era of terrorism by religious fundamentalists against freedom loving peoples. A note: the author's name is spelled Aasne or sne, not Asne, and is pronounced more or less 'Oas-ne'. Eine Rezension von Ein Kunde vom 14. September 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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