| Sumario: | This article elaborates the usefulness of material culture studies for research on contemporary cultural products by representing books as transformable objects with social lives, the investigation of which is needed to better understand their social dimensions in times of global cultural flows. The article discusses the case of a controversial literary bestseller,The Bookseller of Kabul, from the perspective of its globally circulating material embodiments. By following the changing peritexts of this international bestseller, the article investigates how specific interpretations of the book proliferate. Special focus is placed on the ahistorical construction of Afghan women in the peritexts of the book.
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