by Yasmina Khadra · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266134750
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«Les hirondelles de Kaboul» is the novel by Yasmina Khadra published by Pocket in paperback (147 pages, in French).
In Taliban Kabul, amid public executions and prohibitions, Atiq, a former mujahideen turned jailer, drags his shame; Mohsen has lost the will to live and his wife Zunaira, a lawyer, lives hidden behind the tchadri. Their fates intertwine in a spiral of oppression, sacrifice and dignity.
It belongs to the series «La trilogie du malentendu». It won the Prix des Libraires algériens in 2003 and was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2006.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in social dramas with a historical backdrop and in the recent history of Afghanistan.
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.
