Author:Arnost Lustig,Ewald Osers
It is September 1944; the war is going badly for the Germans, and they are in a hurry to complete their 'final solution'. Compromises are being made on all sides, conditions are unspeakable, rumours are rife, but nothing definite is known of the Nazis' intentions.
On the outskirts of a concentration camp in northern Bohemia three people - two eighteen-year-old men and a desperately lost young woman, Leah - are thrown together, sharing their precarious existence in an attic room. While the world disintegrates around them their relationships are charged with passion, their days filled with erotic and spiritual attraction. Caught in the web of their relationships, their futures are uncertain and any choices they have left to make will be made in the face of almost certain death...
The power of his words lies in their very lack of melodrama... beautiful prose
—— Time OutThis wonderful book follows the shifting moralities of people caught in a hopeless situation
—— Good Book GuideThe funniest sad book you'll read all year
—— The TimesA painfully funny, beautifully written account of a wayward family falling like dominoes to the demon drink
—— Rowan PellingFar above the ordinary. Woodward's characters are wonderfully complex and rich
—— Daily TelegraphA transcendentally harmonious and compassionate work
—— Times Literary SupplementA surprisingly tender book... Amid the terror a classic story about love sneaks through: love lost, love imagined, love morphed into madness
—— New York Times Book ReviewBeautifully written... It puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban... Disturbing and mesmerizing, The Swallows of Kabul will stay with you long after you've finished it
—— San Francisco ChronicleRiveting... Spare, taut, and pristinely clear prose... An uncanny knack for making moral tension palpable... Extraordinarily moving
—— Philadelphia InquirerA novel very much in the tradition of Albert Camus, not only in its humanism and concern with the consequences of individual choices but also in its determination to bear witness to the absurdities of daily life... [A] chilling portrait of fundamentalism run amok and its fallout on ordinary people
—— New York Times
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