For more than twenty years Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned,and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles of his books in streets. In spring 2002 award-winning journalist Asne seierstad spent four months living with the bookseller and his family. As Seierstad steps back from the page and lets th...(展开全部)

This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of A...(展开全部)

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. Invited to live with Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, and his family for months, this account of her experience allows the Khans to speak for themselves, giving us a genuinely gripping and moving portrait of a family, and o...(展开全部)

Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen's dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq is a jailer who guards those who have been condemned to death; the darkness of prison and the wretchedness of his job have s...(展开全部)

Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed to leave her home without an escort or covering her face. Intersecting thei...(展开全部)

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from where her Pashtun forebears hailed. Falling in with poets, doctors and other journalists, she began exploring the city on foot and discovered a Kabul quite different from the one s...(展开全部)

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from where her Pashtun forebears hailed. Falling in with poets, doctors and other journalists, she began exploring the city on foot and discovered a Kabul quite different from the one s...(展开全部)

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleepexplores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political expression, damaging the fabric of everyday life. Jonathan Crary examines how this...(展开全部)

本书稿描述了这样一种状态：21世纪资本主义社会不断扩张，每天24个小时每周7天全天候日日夜夜在线，资本主义世界运行节奏代替人的生理节律自然规律，人的注意力被全天候收割，资本主义运行逻辑全面入侵人的工作生活。睡眠是人们从纷繁世界中抽身而退且暂作修整的必要行为。由于它本质上不能带来效益，给生产、流通和消费造成的损失难以估量，因此永远与24/7体制的要求相冲突。该书揭露了资本主义社会对大众的异化，反映了制度对人的剥削。

本书稿描述了这样一种状态：21世纪资本主义社会不断扩张，每天24个小时每周7天全天候日日夜夜在线，资本主义世界运行节奏代替人的生理节律自然规律，人的注意力被全天候收割，资本主义运行逻辑全面入侵人的工作生活。睡眠是人们从纷繁世界中抽身而退且暂作修整的必要行为。由于它本质上不能带来效益，给生产、流通和消费造成的损失难以估量，因此永远与24/7体制的要求相冲突。该书揭露了资本主义社会对大众的异化，反映了制度对人的剥削。