![]() ![]() Most of all, this is an intimate portrait of family life under Islam. ![]() As they endure the extraordinary trials and tensions of Afghanistan's upheavals, they also still try to live ordinary lives, with work, relaxation, shopping, cooking, marriages, rivalries, and shared joys. This is the intimate portrait of a man of principle and of his familytwo wives, five children, and many relatives sharing a small four-room apartment in this war-ravaged city. Yet he has persisted in his passion for books, shedding light in one of the world's darkest places. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan has defied the authoritieswhether communist or Talibanto supply books to the people of Kabul. ![]()
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