• See large image

  The Swallows of Kabul (Paperback)(English / French) By (author) Yasmina Khadra, Translated by John Cullen

  

  $12.34 - Save $2.61 (17%) - RRP $14.95 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Short Description for The Swallows of KabulSet in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples to offer an unflinching but compassionate insight into a society that violence and hypocrisy have brought to the edge of despair.
  Full description

  • Publisher: Anchor Books
  • Published: 12 April 2005
  • Format: Paperback 195 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781400033768 ISBN 10: 1400033764
  • Sales rank: 359,972

• The Attack

  

  Add to basket $12.56 - Save $2.43 (16%) - RRP $14.99

• The Attack

  

  Add to basket $25.95 -

• The Sirens of Baghdad

  

  Add to basket $12.75 - Save $1.19 (8%) - RRP $13.94

• The Attack

  

  Add to basket $13.58 - Save $0.71 (4%) - RRP $14.29

• Swallows of Kabul

  

  Add to basket $13.58 -

Full description for The Swallows of Kabul

• Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed to leave her home without an escort or covering her face. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, Musarrat, who once rescued Atiq and is now dying of sickness and despair. Desperate, exhausted Mohsen wanders through Kabul when he is surrounded by a crowd about to stone an adulterous woman. Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws stones at the face of the condemned woman buried up to her waist. With this gesture the lives of all four protagonists move toward their destinies. "The Swallows of Kabul" is a dazzling novel written with compassion and exquisite detail by one of the most lucid writers about the mentality of Islamic fundamentalists and the complexities of the Muslim world. Yasmina Khadra brings readers into the hot, dusty streets of Kabul and offers them an unflinching but compassionate insight into a society that violence and hypocrisy have brought to the edge of despair.