The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra*Used very good condition Translated from the French by John Cullen Published by Anchor Books 2004 Set in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, this extraordinary novel "puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban" ( San Francisco Chronicle), taking readers into the seemingly divergent lives of two couples and depicting with compassion and exquisite details the mentality of Islamic fundamentalists and the complexities of the Muslim

With some reluctance

when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother

both personal and political

as a strategy for accurately determining his child’s astrological charts

and writers—who were present at key events

and faraway countries

They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians

In this original and evocative book

Born of a troubling history that continues to rage forth and claim its dead

Published by Vintage Canada 1999

Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond

sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends