This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra. They have won several literary awards, including the Prix des Libraires. His novels are written in French, but have also been translated into many other languages and, in some cases, adapted into films. He did not reveal his true identity until after he had left the army and moved to France. He began his literary career during his 36 years of service in the Algerian army, and adopted his wife’s name as a pseudonym in order to avoid military censorship. Yasmina Khadra is the pen-name of Mohammed Moulessehoul, who was born in Algeria in 1955. The Swallows of Kabul was first published in 2002, and an animated film adaptation is scheduled for release in 2019. As these four lives become intertwined, the narrative paints a harrowing and often shocking picture of the oppression and terror that become part of everyday life in a country gripped by tyranny.
It follows the lives of two couples: Atiq and Mussarat, who are plagued by illness and depression, and Mohsen and Zunaira, who chafe against the new restrictions on their freedom. The Swallows of Kabul is a bleak portrait of life under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
This clear and detailed 60-page reading guide is structured as follows: It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including the war in Afghanistan, solitude and women’s rights. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. One line seems to sum up the entire feeling of those living in this closed and enclosed environment.9782808004381 60 EBook Plurilingua Publishing This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra. I’m just an affront, a disgrace, a blemish that has to be hidden.’ ‘Of all the burdens they’ve put on us, that’s the most degrading…It cancels my face and takes away my identity and turns me into an object…If I put that damn veil on, I’m neither a human being nor an animal. A broken window for example is also punishable by whipping since a woman not wearing a veil might be seen through such a window. Men are dragged to the mosque and even young boys can be attacked for the minor of reasons. Taliban thugs and gangs patrol the streets looking for anyone who they believe to be disobeying the rules of the land.
Anything resembling free will, freedom and individuality is banned. ‘A city in an advanced stage of decomposition’.Ī city cut off from the world and closed to anyone within it too.
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