by Yasmina Khadra · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266204965
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«Les hirondelles de Kaboul» is the novel by Yasmina Khadra about Taliban Afghanistan, published by Pocket in paperback (147 pages, in French).
In a Kabul under the Taliban yoke, the jailer Atiq drags his sorrow; Mohsen, who longed for modernity, has lost the will to live, and his wife Zunaira, a lawyer, hides behind the burka. The city seems to offer only tragedies, and the hope that the swallows, symbol of spring and life, will return remains distant.
The work, published in 2010 by the Pocket imprint, includes an unpublished preface by the author as stated on the cover.
For readers of contemporary French literature and novels set in 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.
