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The Swallows Of Kabul
| Author: | Yasmina Khadra |
| Category: | Unspecified Category [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Anchor |
| ISBN: | 1400033764 |
| Rank: | 176,958 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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Yasmina Khadra
The Author Book The Swallows Of Kabul and the author of 7 another books.
Yasmina Khadra est le pseudonyme de l'écrivain algérien Mohammed Moulessehoul.
Son père, officier de l'ALN blessé en 1958, veut faire de lui un soldat en l'envoyant dès l'âge de neuf ans dans un lycée militaire, où il fait toutes ses études avant de servir comme officier dans l'armée algérienne pendant 36 ans.
Durant la période sombre de la guerre civile algérienne dans les années 80-90, il est l'un des principaux responsables de la lutte contre l'AIS puis le GIA, en particulier en Oranie.
Moammed Moulessehoul choisit en 1997, avec le roman Morituri, d'écrire sous pseudonyme.
Diverses raisons l'y poussent, mais la première que donne Moulessehoul est la clandestinité.
Elle lui permet de prendre ses distances par rapport à sa vie militaire et de mieux approcher son thème cher: l'intolérance.
Officier dans l'armée algérienne, il démissionne en 2000, pour se consacrer à sa vocation: l'écriture, et choisit de s'exprimer en langue française.
Après un court passage au Mexique, il vient s'installer en 2001, en France, où il habite encore aujourd'hui.
En 2002 dans "L'imposture des mots", Khadra-Moullessehoul répond aux attaques qui fustigent son passé militaire.
Il choisit de rendre hommage aux femmes algériennes et à son épouse en particulier, en prenant ses deux prénoms, Yasmina Khadra, et ne révèle son identité masculine qu'en 2001 avec la parution de son roman autobiographique "L'Écrivain" et son identité tout entière dans "L'imposture des mots" en 2002.
A cette époque ses romans ont déjà touché un grand nombre de lecteurs et de critiques.
Parmi ses ouvrages, on peut citer "Morituri" (Baleine, 1997), "L'automne des chimères" (Baleine, 1998), "A quoi rêvent les loups" (Julliard, 1999) et "Cousine K" (Julliard, 2003), où se déploie le "style Khadra" alliant lyrisme, métaphores inattendues, dépouillement et poésie.
Style qui atteint son apogée avec "L'Attentat" (Julliard), retenu par les jurys du Goncourt et du Renaudot en 2005 et titulaire du prix des libraires 2006.
En 2010, l'auteur délaisse pour un temps le sujet du conflit au Moyen-Orient, au cœur des "Hirondelles de Kaboul" (2002) et "Les Sirènes de Bagdad" (2006), pour écrire un conte moral: "L'Olympe des infortunes".
En 2015, il publie "La dernière nuit du Rais".
Book Description
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who 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. The Swallows of Kabul is a dazzling novel written with compassion and exquisite detail by one of the most lucid writers about the mentality of Islamic fundamentalists and the complexities of the Muslim world. 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.
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