Rais' Own Book
During a trip to Scandinavia in November 2005, Rais declared he was seeking asylum in either Norway or Sweden, as a political refugee. He felt things revealed about him in Seierstad's book had made life for him and his family unsafe in Afghanistan, where bootleg versions of the book had been published in Persian.
Rais has published his own version of the story, There once was a bookseller in Kabul. It was translated to both Norwegian and Brazilian Portuguese.
Read more about this topic: The Bookseller Of Kabul
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