by Yasmina Khadra · JULLIARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260015963
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«Les hirondelles de Kaboul» is the novel by Yasmina Khadra, published by Julliard in paperback (187 pages, in French).
In a Kabul in ruins under the Taliban regime, four people —a fallen bourgeois, a lawyer barred from practising, a jailer marked by public executions and an ailing wife— seek to give meaning to their lives. Between oppression and hopelessness, love emerges as a possible miracle, and the novel explores human dignity.
Originally published in Paris in 2002, the work bears the subtitle «roman» on the cover.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in Afghan society and the narrative of Yasmina Khadra.
Mohammed Moulessehoul, better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra, is an Algerian author living in France, who writes in French. One of the most famous Algerian novelists in the world, he has written almost 40 novels, and has published in more than 50 countries. Khadra has often explored Algerian and other Arab countries' civil wars, depicting Muslim conflicts and reality, the attraction of radical Islamism to those alienated by the incompetence and hypocrisy of politicians, and conflicts between East and West. In his several writings on the Algerian war, he has exposed the regime and the fundamentalist opposition as the joint guilty parties in the country's tragedy.
