Åsne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul (2002)

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What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.

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When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.

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Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn.

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They played a game of dare — who could get closest to the flames?

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In Afghanistan a woman's longing for love is taboo. It is forbidden by the tribes' notion of honor and by the mullahs. Young people have no right to meet, to love, or to choose. Love has little to do with romance; on the contrary, love can be interpreted as committing a serious crime, punishable by death.

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There are many things one can think of when one needs someone to vent one's wrath on.

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