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Åsne Seierstad

    February 10, 1970

    Ásne Seierstad is an acclaimed journalist whose work is characterized by its deep insight into complex issues. She crafts her reports with an emphasis on the human dimension and the ethical questions that arise in challenging environments. Her style is penetrating and analytical, focused on uncovering truth and understanding human nature under extreme conditions. Through her extensive engagement with global events, she offers readers authentic and compelling literary experiences.

    Åsne Seierstad
    The Bookseller of Kabul
    With Their Backs to the World
    A Hundred and One Days
    One of Us
    Two Sisters
    The Afghans
    • Der Krieg ist anderswo

      Russland von innen

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Im Januar 2023 überquert ein junger Russe mitten in der Nacht die Grenze zu Norwegen. Nachdem er mit der Wagner-Gruppe in der Ukraine gekämpft hat, hofft er auf Asyl. Åsne Seierstad trifft ihn, um seine Geschichte zu erfahren. Dann will sie genauer wissen, wie die Menschen in Russland den Krieg und Putins Herrschaft erleben. Es gelingt ihr, durch das riesige Land zu reisen, nach Sibirien, wo die Armee ihre Soldaten rekrutiert, und in die Großstädte, wo viele den Krieg verdrängen. Sie trifft Fanatiker, Mitläufer und Oppositionelle, sie erlebt Angst und Lethargie, Mut und Verblendung. So findet sie den Stoff für das Panorama einer zerrissenen Gesellschaft, die es Putin möglich macht, unbeirrt an seinen Zielen festzuhalten.

      Der Krieg ist anderswo2026
    • Twenty years after The Bookseller of Kabul, internationally bestselling author Åsne Seierstad returns to Afghanistan to explore life under the Taliban today through three individuals and their families.

      The Afghans2023
      4.8
    • Two Sisters

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      One morning in October 2013, nineteen-year-old Ayan Juma and her sixteen-year- old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents. 'Peace, God's mercy and blessings upon you, Mum and Dad ... Please do not be cross with us...' Leila and Ayan had decided to travel to Syria, 'and help out down there as best we can'. They had been planning for months. By the time their desperate father Sadiq tracks them to Turkey, they have already crossed the border. But Sadiq is determined to find them. What follows is the gripping, heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart. While Sadiq risks his own life to bring his daughters back, at home his wife Sara begins to question their life in Norway. How could her children have been radicalised without her knowledge? How can she protect her two younger sons from the same fate? Asne Seierstad - with the complete support of the Juma family - followed the story from the beginning, through its many dramatic twists and turns. It's a tale that crosses from Sadiq and Sara's original home in Somalia, to their council estate in Oslo, to Turkey and to Syria - where two teenage sisters must face the shocking consequences of their decision.

      Two Sisters2016
      4.6
    • One of Us

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Inspiration for the Netflix Film 22 July - directed by Paul Greengrass - and in the tradition of In Cold Blood, the account of a massacre and a gripping portrait of evil, by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul.

      One of Us2013
      4.5
    • Dzieci Groznego

      • 411 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Moskwa, 1995 rok. Pierwsza wojna czeczeńska. Pierwszy dziennikarski wyjazd dwudziestoczteroletniej Norweżki, Asne Seierstad. Media są wciąż jeszcze niezależne, dlatego można w nich zobaczyć m.in. wstrząsającą relację z nieudanego szturmu Rosjan na Grozny. Asne czuje, że musi to zobaczyć na własne oczy. Rosyjskim transportem wojskowym dostaje się na front. Rozmawia z Rosjanami i Czeczenami; w poszukiwaniu informacji dociera nawet do samego prezydenta, Dżochara Dudajewa. Jej zauroczenie rosyjską kulturą mija niemal bez śladu. Ale w tej wojnie obowiązują jeszcze jakieś zasady; wiadomo, kto walczy o wolność, a kto jest okupantem. Grozny, 2006 rok. Drugi raz Asne Seierstad leci do Czeczenii. Druga wojna toczy się głównie między marionetkowymi władcami kraju, Czeczenami posłusznymi Rosjanom, a całą resztą Czeczenów. Prawdziwi lub domniemani bojownicy znikają bez śladu, porywani przez gwardię prezydenta Ramzana Kadyrowa lub rosyjską FSB. Asne poznaje zarówno kulisy, jak i fasadę tego konfliktu. Słucha wstrząsających opowieści czeczeńskich sierot i matek. Przeprowadza wywiad z Kadyrowem. Przy zachowaniu całego dziennikarskiego obiektywizmu i bezstronności Asne Seierstad staje się kimś więcej niż dziennikarką ? staje się świadkiem historii. Jeśli Kapuścińskiego uznamy za mistrza reportażu literackiego, to Asne Seierstad jest jego godną następczynią. Co udowadnia tą piękną, choć bardzo smutną książką. The Sunday Herald

      Dzieci Groznego2008
      4.3
    • Onder het noorderlicht

      Een literaire kennismaking met 17 Noorse topauteurs

      • 222 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Keuze van romanfragmenten uit de hedendaagse Noorse literatuur.Een ontdekkingsreis langs het beste uit de hedendaagse Noorse literatuur. Van Lars Saabye Christensen tot Herbjørg Wassmo.Wat lezers van de buitenlandse literatuur weten, beperkt zich vaak tot enkele namen. De Noorse literatuur vormt daarop geen uitzondering. Uitgeverij De Geus brengt al een aantal jaren met grote regelmaat zowel gevestigde namen als aanstormend talent onder de aandacht van lezend Nederland. Deze bundel - in het jaar dat Noorwegen zijn honderdjarig bestaan als onafhankelijk koninkrijk viert - is een presentatie van verhalen of fragmenten uit werk van Noorse auteurs die bij De Geus verschijnen.

      Onder het noorderlicht2005
      2.9
    • De boekhandelaar van Kaboel - druk Herdruk

      • 315 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      De Noorse oorlogscorrespondente, die vlak na het verdrijven van het Talibanbewind enige maanden bij een Afghaanse familie woonde, geeft met name een beeld van het leven van de vrouw.

      De boekhandelaar van Kaboel - druk Herdruk2005
    • The Bookseller of Kabul

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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 of a country of great cultural riches and extreme contradictions. For more than 20 years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities—whether Communist or Taliban—to supply books to the people of Kabul. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. Yet he had persisted in his passion for books, shedding light in one of the world's darkest places. This is the intimate portrait of a man of principle and of his family—two wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room house in this war ravaged city. But more than that, it is a rare look at contemporary life under Islam, where even after the Taliban's collapse, the women must submit to arranged marriages, polygamous husbands, and crippling limitations on their ability to travel, learn and communicate with others. About the Author Asne Seierstad is an award-winning journalist who has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan.

      The Bookseller of Kabul2003
      3.8
    • A Hundred and One Days

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      In January 2003 Åsne Seierstad entered Baghdad on a ten-day visa. She was to stay for over three months, reporting on the war and its aftermath. A Hundred and One Days is her compelling account of a city under siege, and a fascinating insight into the life of a foreign correspondent. An award-winning writer, Seierstad brilliantly details the frustrations and dangers journalists faced trying to uncover the truth behind the all-pervasive propaganda. She also offers a unique portrait of Baghdad and its people, trying to go about their daily business under the constant threat of attack. Seierstad's passionate and erudite book conveys both the drama and the tragedy of her one hundred and one days in a city at war.

      A Hundred and One Days2003
      4.0
    • With Their Backs to the World

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      International reporter Asne Seierstad pens a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic--during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have followed.

      With Their Backs to the World2001
      3.8