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      • In the ruins of a silently sad city, under the hot summer sun of 1998 Kabul and the Taliban rule, various characters struggle to overcome a cruel reality marked by oppression and suffering.
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  2. The Swallows of Kabul is a 2002 novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. It was originally written and published in French. Plot. Chapter 1. You meet Atiq Shaukat, a jailer for the Taliban. His wife, Musarrat, is very ill and dying. He is late for work and blames it on his wife's illness. He escorts a prostitute to be stoned to death.

    • Michele Levy, Yasmina Khadra, John Cullen
    • 2002
  3. The Swallows of Kabul is a work of historical fiction, taking place during the Taliban occupation of Kabul in Afghanistan. The novel was initially published in August of 2002, 10 months after the US-Afghan military overthrew the Taliban occupation of the city.

  4. The Swallows of Kabul (French: Les hirondelles de Kaboul) is a 2019 internationally co-produced adult animated psychological drama film [2] directed by Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobé Mévellec. [3] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. [4] The film is an adaption of the novel of the same name by ...

  5. Some people live with so much violence and death around them that it has become their normal. Such is life for Taliban supporter Atiq Shaukat, who works as a jailer at Kabul prison. His wife is sick and dying. He thinks of her as a burden and resents the time he has to spend taking care of her.

  6. Feb 1, 2004 · 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 cov...

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  7. Feb 8, 2004 · The Swallows of Kabul. February 8, 2004. Two men struggle to keep their sanity in a brief, despairing novel written pseudonymously by a former Algerian Army officer. Before the destruction...

  8. May 16, 2019 · In Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, in the late 1990s, the reign of the Taliban has plunged local society into obscurantism, under the iron rule of the Sharia and its armed zealots.

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