Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed. Mosheen''s dream of becoming a diplomat has been shattered and Zunaira can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. Atiq is a jailer who guards those who have been condemned to death; the darkness of prison and the wretchedness of his job have seeped into his soul. Atiq''s wife, Musarrat, is suffering from an illness no doctor can cure. Yet, the lives of these four people are about to become inexplicably intertwined, through death and imprisonment to passion and extraordinary self-sacrifice. The Swallows of Kabul is an astounding and elegiac novel of four people struggling to hold on to their humanity in a place where pleasure is a deadly sin and death has become routine.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Arrow (Random)
ISBN: 9780099466024
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 208
Tiempo de lectura:
4h 15m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/01/2005
Año de edición: 2005
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra (Kenadsa, 1955) es un escritor argelino, autor de más de treinta volúmenes con un notable éxito entre los lectores y una magnífica acogida entre la prensa. Sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine, convertidas en obras de teatro y reproducidas como cómic o libros ilustrados. Entre los numerosos premios cosechados a lo largo de su carrera literaria, cabe destacar el que le dio la Academia Francesa en 2011 por el conjunto de su obra, el Grand Prix de Littérature Henri Gal.