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Moshen and his wife, Zunaira, met at the university and once looked forward to a happy and prosperous life together. But Moshen's dream of becoming a diplomat, halted by the war with Russia, dies with the ascendancy of the Taliban. Zunaira, formerly a lawyer who worked for women's rights, can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul without a veil over her face. It is only in their own home that they can be themselves. One day, unable to resist Moshen's pleas, Zunaira dons her burqa and goes to the market with him. The outing turns into a nightmare. Atiq, a veteran of the Russian war, is now a part-time jailer who watches over those condemned to death. The darkness of the prison and the wretchedness of his job have seeped into his soul. His home offers little respite from his rage and misery; his wife, Musarrat, is suffering from an illness no doctor can cure and even the most fervent prayers cannot alleviate. As Atiq begins to lose all faith in his own ability to survive the arbitrary demands and extreme cruelties of the Taliban, he is drawn to Zunaira, now in prison awaiting public execution. In a final act of defiance, Musarrat conceives a plan that will allow her husband to live and to hope again-Already a bestseller in France, The Swallows of Kabul brilliantly exposes the differences between religiosity and dangerous religious extremism. Written in spare, exquisite prose, it is an unforgettable portrait of life under a fascist theocracy.
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- EditoreWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 043401141X
- ISBN 13 9780434011414
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THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL: A NOVEL. Translated by John Cullen.
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The Swallows of Kabul. An Extraordinary Novel of Life Under the Taliban
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Descrizione libro Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. The Swallows of Kabul. An Extraordinary Novel of Life Under the Taliban. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Slight browning to top edge of front D/J. Translated From the French by John Cullen. The author's remarkable novel weaves together the stories of four people struggling to hold on to their humanity in a place where pleasure is a deadly sin and death has become a banality. Already a bestseller in France, this book brilliantly exposes the differences berween reliosity and dangerous religious extremism. Written in spare, exquisite prose, it is an unforgettable portrait of life under an authoritarian regime. 195 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.). Codice articolo 107494
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