The Swallows of Kabul - Rilegato

Khadra, Yasmina

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ISBN 10: 0385510012 ISBN 13: 9780385510011

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2004

Riassunto

Their lives as a diplomat and lawyer frozen by the ascendancy of the Taliban, Moshen and Zunaira find their situation descending into nightmarish proportions when Zunaira is arrested and condemned to death, an occurrence through which she comes to know veteran and jailer Atiq, who is embittered by the Taliban's cruelty and his wife's terminal illness.

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"Yasmina Khadra's Kabul is hell on earth, a place of hunger, tedium, and stifling fear."
–J. M. Coetzee, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature

"I am so grateful that the The Swallows of Kabul has been written, and written with such relentless poetry and passion. The reality of life under a rule such as the Taliban's makes us despair not only of the land that could tolerate such horror, but also of the world that for so long kept silent about it. However, the way that reality is narrated and ultimately redefined by Yasmina Khadra once more proves the power of fiction to turn our despair into hope, to restore our stolen sense of dignity and humanity and to desire life when death seems to be the safest refuge."
–Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
"The Swallows of Kabul is reminiscent of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. It is a gem in world literature–poetic, intimate, and poignant–painting a beautiful yet sorrowful landscape of a people and their turbulent lives, lived and lamented in a forgotten land. A must read."
–Da Chen, author of China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution

“Disturbing and mesmerizing, the beautifully written Swallows puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] chilling portrait of fundamentalism run amok and its fallout on ordinary people who want only to go about their mundane lives.”
–The New York Times

“[L]yrical, heartbreaking.... This book is a masterpiece of misery.... It is a harsh but eloquent indictment of those who stood by and allowed the brutal Taliban regime to thrive.”
–Newsweek

“[A] surprisingly tender book....[Khadra] writes as a kind of village sage, a war veteran whose tales compel passers-by to stop and listen.... Khadra belongs in the ranks of those writers–J.M. Coetzee, for example–who make violence into art.”
–The New York Times Book Review

“Khadra’s prose is gentle and precise....[He] makes a powerful point.”
–The New Yorker

L'autore:

is a nom de plume of the Algerian army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul, who is the author of two other books published in English: In the Name of God and Wolf Dreams. He took the feminine pseudonym to avoid submitting his manuscripts for approval by military censors while he was still in the army. He lives in France.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0385510012
• ISBN 13: 9780385510011
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 195