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Bookseller of Kabul's wife applies for asylum by admin in Culture visit site

The wife of an Afghan bookseller depicted in an international bestseller is applying for asylum in Europe because she claims the book has endangered her life. Suraya Rais is the wife of Shah Mohammed Rais, the title character in The Bookseller of Kabul by the Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad. Since its publication in 2002, the book - an account of an Afghan extended family after the fall of the Taliban - has become a hit around the world; in the UK, it was the bestselling non-...