The Guardian says, “It’s tempting to see her as a grown-up Pippi Longstocking with a satellite phone”. Certainly she and her books have received lots of attention. It helps that she is smart, well spoken, tall, blonde Norwegian with excellent English — one of five languages she speaks.

I saw a BBC Hardtalk interview with Asne Seierstad about her book, The Bookseller of Kabul. Interesting. She said in Afghanistan there is a saying not, “to be or not to be”, but “to say or not to say”. She also said that “love is taboo” and “emotions are taboo”. So in fact some of what she writes comes from poetry as the people will not say the real answers.

She also has other books books.

They also talked about her book, A Hundred and One Days.