The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra when Michael Palin first heard

when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother

They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians

both personal and political

as a strategy for accurately determining his child’s astrological charts

and faraway countries

The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra when Michael Palin first heard*Used very good condition Translated from the French by John Cullen Published by Anchor Books 2004 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