Новинки Осне Сейерстад

Страдания и радости обычной афганской семьи. В начале 2002 года норвежская журналистка Осне Сейерстад поселилась в доме афганского торговца книгами, чтобы написать книгу о нем и его семье – женах, детях, братьях и других родственниках. Она провела в Кабуле первую весну после падения режима и писала обо всем, что видела вокруг. В центре ее внимания оказалась повседневная жизнь этого закрытого от чужаков общества. Сейерстад рассказывает о непростой участи афганцев и их надеждах на будущее, которое они пытаются строить среди руин.

This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9788248916826.

Historien om to ungjenter fra Bærum som reiser til Syria og en desperat far som forsøker å finne dem. En oktoberdag i 2013 kommer ikke de to tenåringsjentene, Ayan og Leila, hjem til vanlig tid. Senere på kvelden kommer sjokkmeldingen: De er på vei til Syria. På jakt etter døtrene tar faren seg inn i det borgerkrigsherjede landet, en reise som skal føre ham inn i områder kontrollert av Den islamske staten (IS). Dette er bare starten. I "To søstre" går Åsne Seierstad, den bestselgende og kritikerroste forfatteren av "Bokhandleren i Kabul" og "En av oss", løs på et av de viktigste og mest kompliserte spørsmål i vår tid. Hvorfor radikaliseres muslimsk ungdom oppvokst i Vesten? Hva førte de to søstrene fra Kolsås til Kalifatet? Hvem er Ayan og Leila? Som få andre makter Åsne Seierstad å komme tett på personene hun skriver om. "To søstre" er både historien om jentene som dro, et land i krig og om en familie som splintres. Det er også en fortelling om oss, i Norge i dag.

A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of Norway’s governing Labour Party. In The Island, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?

As in her bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad excels at the vivid portraiture of lives under stress. She delves deep into Breivik’s troubled childhood, showing how a hip-hop and graffiti aficionado became a right-wing activist and Internet game addict, and then an entrepreneur, Freemason, and self-styled master warrior who sought to “save Norway” from the threat of Islam and multiculturalism. She writes with equal intimacy about Breivik’s victims, tracing their political awakenings, aspirations to improve their country, and ill-fated journeys to the island. By the time Seierstad reaches Utøya, we know both the killer and those he will kill. We have also gotten to know an entire country—famously peaceful and prosperous, and utterly incapable of protecting its youth.

Знайомство норвезької журналістки Осне Саєрстад з кабульським книгарем Султаном Ханом стало перепусткою в незнаний як європейському, так і українському читачеві світ постталібанського афганського суспільства. Життя міста і села, різних прошарків населення, специфіка економічного, політичного та соціального устрою, а передусім – обмежений ретельними приписами суспільних вимог жіночий побут під паранджею, – усе це лягає в основу розповіді авторки.

In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1994, Russian troops invaded the Republic of Chechnya, plunging the country into a prolonged and bloody conflict. Asne Seierstad reported regularly on the war, describing its effects on those trying to live their daily lives amidst the violence. In 2006 and 2007 she returned, travelling in secret, in constant danger. The tragedy of Chechnya had continued but the world had moved on. In a broken and devastated society she meets the orphans, the wounded, the lost - and tells their stories at last.

Angel of Grozny attempts to give an accessible and impartial account of the complicated historical and political forces at play in the Chechen conflict whilst also describing her encounters with combatants and civilians on both sides. The book features an account of her meeting with Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. As well as trying to understand the mindset of the Chechen and Russian people, one of the books key themes is the exposure of corruption in the process of reconstructing Chechnya.


The Angel of Grozny of the book's title is a Chechen woman Hadijat Gatayeva who has turned their home into an orphanage for street children of the war.

Взгляд изнутри на жизнь обычной афганской семьи. Норвежская журналистка, попавшая в Кабул в первую весну после бегства талибов, делится впечатлениями о тех, кто пробует сбросить с себя оковы и вздохнуть полной грудью.

Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family for several months.
For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities - be they communist or Taliban - to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the communists and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. He even resorted to hiding most of his stock in attics all over Kabul.
But while Khan is passionate in his love of books and hatred of censorship, he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. As an outsider, Seierstad is able to move between the private world of the women - including Khan's two wives - and the more public lives of the men. And so we learn of proposals and marriages, suppression and abuse of power, crime and punishment. The result is a gripping and moving portrait of a family, and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history.

В начале 2002 года норвежская журналистка Осне Сейерстад поселилась в доме афганского торговца книгами, чтобы написать книгу о нем и его семье – женах, детях, братьях и других родственниках.
Она провела в Кабуле первую весну после падения режима и писала обо всем, что видела вокруг. В центре ее внимания оказалась повседневная жизнь этого закрытого от чужаков общества. Сейерстад рассказывает о непростой участи афганцев и их надеждах на будущее, которое они пытаются строить среди руин.
Эта честная и яркая книга читается как самый увлекательный роман.
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