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“When I was released from jail by the Soviets I wiped the dust off the bookshelves in my shop and started again,” he said.
Like Ray Bradbury’s dystopian 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, which stands against censorship and in defence of literature, and is a book previously stocked in his shop, Rais says his resolve to keep #books alive will not falter.
His message to the Taliban is a defiant one.
“If you destroy my bookstore a
hundred times I will rebuild it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/i-wanted-to-end-my-life-bookseller-of-kabul-rebuilds-destroyed-business