Asne Seierstad’s book “The Bookseller of Kabul” is a runaway hit. It has “sold more than half a million copies in Scandinavia alone. It has been sold to publishers in 17 countries and came out to rave reviews in Britain last month. It is due out in the US in October, and is the bestselling Norwegian non-fiction book of all time.” But the Afghan family on which the book is based is angry at its portrayal and the head of the family is “not only demanding ‘compensation’ and ‘damages’, but says that many people, himself included, ‘would be happy to see it burned’.”