Bookseller of Kabul Study Guide

bookseller; revived training as engineer;loves books; buys books in Pakistan and Tehran;sells the books in Kabul for profit; opposes soviets and fundamentalists;often imprisoned & books burned; protects Afghan culture; hides books in attics around Kabul;wife to Sharifa and Sonya; has three bookstores in Kabul;self made, now rich; 11-13 people live in 4 room apartment;little electricity & water;one room= storeroom;his family is unhappy; has three sons and a daughter'

woman must wear burka in public; woman cannot work;

Sultan's second wife; married at 16;

capital of afghanistan; place where Sultan and family live

traffic circle in Kabul where book burning takes place

capital of Iran;Sultan travels with his uncle when in school

village outside of Kabul; Sultan is born here

city in Pakistan; some Khan member lived during civil war

city in Pakistan that is cultural and artistic

place in Afghanistan; believed tomb of Ali is

mountain range north of Kabul

Mullah Omar had support base

Sultan wants a new wife; no family members would help him; a family member must ask woman for marriage; pretended he had a suitor for Sonya; later married her

sold books; imprisoned but still read; would donate books to public library when had relaible government

Sharifa lived alone with her daughter in Peshawar; Sultan lived in Kabul with Sonya; Sharifa gossiped with neighbors; Saliqa was a girl who was beaten because she went in a taxi with a boy and to a park with a boy; Jamila was cheating on her husband and so was killed by her own brothers

Afghans were not aloud in Pakistan; Sultan took a sketchy route in order to sneak in; he does business in Pakistan;Kyber Pass= path travelled by famous; Sultan hated Islamic Religion; Sultan's brother is named Yunus;Yunus aims to marry Belqisa; Sultan wanted to bring educational books; Taliban books were focused on war and killing;

afghan woman were unhappy; wrote poems

sultan aims to sell his sister for money and give the other one away for free; Bulbula suffered from illness and therefore gets no respect; Shalika is a biology teacher who marries Wakil;

16 laws; woman could not leave house with authorization; she is to cater her husband and children; must wear burkas if leaving and cannot wear makeup, etc.; will not be aloud in Heaven and will be punished

a woman can not show face before wedding;

in a wedding, must bleed on cloth in order to go to new family

before war, house was nicer; not it is poor looking; Sultan's mom lives with them

Mansur is sultan's son; he likes this girl, but she never returns

Mansur believes is called on pilgrimage to Ali; he sees many poor cities

Leila takes care of everything; treated like a slave

Leila wants to be a teacher; Sultan threw his nephew Fazil out of the house to live with his mother Mariam; Fazil worked in the bookshop and later was fired; Leila is Sultan's sister;

Fazil went to school and did homework; got in trouble for not answering questions correctly; he is timid

Aimal=Sultan's youngest son; aimal works 12 hours a day at a kabul hotel;hotel has been destroyed due to a lot of factors; Sultan does not let sons go to school; wants to be business man; aimal longs to go to school; aimal overcome with sadness

Jalaluddin steals postcards; he is a carpenter; he is beaten by his father; carpenter is arrested; he was selling them to a mahmoud; mahmoud is arrested

Tajmir=sultan's distant nephew; employer is Bob who is on hunt for Al-Qaida; he goes to sketchy places like Khost; Tajmir runs into two opposing families Khan and Mustafa; homosexuality is normal;

Leila loves Karim; gets secret letters; longs for job as teacher; he helps her; she does not marry Karim

karim leaves country because of courtship; family splits