The swallows of kabul

A powerful human story, intense, elegant, despairing prose, deeply affecting and lyrical, heartbreaking prose. Since the ascendancy of the Taliban, the lives of Mohsin and his beautiful wife Zunera have been gradually destroyed. Mohsin's dreams of becoming a diplomat have been shattered and Zunera can no longer even appear on the streets of Kabul unveiled. It's an astounding and elegant novel of four people suffering to hold on to the humanity. It is a play where pleasure is a deadly sin.