The Swallows of Kabul

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“Stunning. . [Khadra] conveys the physical deprivations and humiliations with a few startling details, but the book’s most devastating sections explore the mental damage of living under such terror. . [This] novel is a surgical strike against fundamentalism more penetrating than anything the Pentagon could devise.”

— The Christian Science Monitor

“Yasmina Khadra’s Kabul is hell on earth, a place of hunger, tedium, and stifling fear.”

— J. M. Coetzee, winner of the

2003 Nobel Prize for Literature

“A brief, despairing novel. . Khadra’s prose is gentle and precise. . Makes a powerful point about what can happen to a man when ‘the light of his conscience has gone out.’ ” —The New Yorker

“Chilling. . Powerful, surreal. . A meditation on the ultimate sacrifice of love. . [Khadra] expertly reveals the breakdown of human relations in a repressive society.”

— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“I am so grateful that The Swallows of Kabul has been written, and written with such relentless poetry and passion. . [It] once more proves the power of fiction to turn our despair into hope, to restore our stolen sense of dignity and humanity, and to desire life when death seems to be the safest refuge.”

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