One line seems to sum up the entire feeling of those living in this closed and enclosed environment. I’m just an affront, a disgrace, a blemish that has to be hidden.’ ‘Of all the burdens they’ve put on us, that’s the most degrading…It cancels my face and takes away my identity and turns me into an object…If I put that damn veil on, I’m neither a human being nor an animal. This is a story about Afghanistan and two couples from different social backgrounds living under the. A broken window for example is also punishable by whipping since a woman not wearing a veil might be seen through such a window. The Swallows of Kabul Kindle Edition by Yasmina Khadra (Author), John Cullen (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition 366 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Swallows of Kabul. A social issue that is raised in the book, The Swallows of Kabul is inequality. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the. Men are dragged to the mosque and even young boys can be attacked for the minor of reasons. The Swallows of Kabul is Inequality by Yasmina Khadra. The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, John Cullen (Translator). Taliban thugs and gangs patrol the streets looking for anyone who they believe to be disobeying the rules of the land. While the use of the simile enhances imagery, it also brings out the piercing and uncomfortable nature of the cries of the infants. Their wails pierce his skull like a blade. The writer notes: he hears infants crying. Anything resembling free will, freedom and individuality is banned. The severely uncomfortable nature of the sounds of the crying infants is brought out through the use of a simile. ‘A city in an advanced stage of decomposition’.Ī city cut off from the world and closed to anyone within it too.