by Yasmina Khadra · Anchor Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099466024
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«The Swallows of Kabul» is the novel by Yasmina Khadra, published in 2005 by Anchor Books in hardback (208 pages, in English).
In Kabul under the Taliban regime, two couples try to preserve their humanity: Mohsen and Zunaira, whose lives are subjected to repression, and Atiq, a jailer of the condemned, with his sick wife Musarrat. Zunaira's imprisonment crosses their fates in a story about faith, sacrifice and dignity in the face of oppression.
The novel was originally published in French as «Les Hirondelles de Kaboul» and is part of the series «La trilogie du malentendu». It won the Prix des Libraires algériens in 2003.
For readers of literary fiction and narratives about Afghanistan and the Taliban regime.
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.
