Para calcular el desglose general de valoraciones y porcentajes, no utilizamos un simple promedio. Mejora tu compra. 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 world.
Mohsen comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed to leave her home without an escort or covering her face. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, Musarrat, who once rescued Atiq and is now dying of sickness and despair.
Desperate, exhausted Mohsen wanders through Kabul when he is surrounded by a crowd about to stone an adulterous woman. Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws stones at the face of the condemned woman buried up to her waist. With this gesture the lives of all four protagonists move toward their destinies. Yasmina Khadra brings readers into the hot, dusty streets of Kabul and offers them an unflinching but compassionate insight into a society that violence and hypocrisy have brought to the edge of despair.
Previous page. Medida Lexile. Ver todos los detalles. Next page. Críticas "A surprisingly tender book. Amid the terror a classic story about love sneaks through: love lost, love imagined, love morphed into madness. It puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban. Spare, taut, and pristinely clear prose. An uncanny knack for making moral tension palpable. Extraordinarily moving. Powerful, surreal.
A meditation on the ultimate sacrifice of love. His style is as spare and flinty as the craggy hills that surround the city. Communicates a sense of urgency, as if its creator knew he was on the verge of being found out. What gives The Swallows of Kabul its momentum is the sense of conviction it brings to its most dramatic moments.
