Black is Black 2

Through the destinies of two couples living Kabul, the author demonstrates brilliantly the horrible inhumanity of the Taliban regime. There is something of the literature of the absurd in this book because life in Kabul under the Taliban, it is first to die of love - the two couples are torn by dint of trying to recover despite the circumstances - before dying at all. The novel opens with the stoning of a prostitute, ends with the lynching of a man madly in love, and causes us, in the final few pages, the execution of a dying wife to the admirable selflessness and the strange disappearance of a woman resigned to not live after accidentally killed her husband. One also wonders what to think of this disappearance: Zunaira she will survive, like the poor fool who is determined to leave Kabul? It seems in any case be the moral of the novel, supported by a style that knows pass from poetry to land the most brutal earth in the space of a sentence: Survive in Kabul under the Taliban, is leaving Kabul. .. But is it even still possible?