Strong Winds series allusion to Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series as well as other works, particularly R.L. Stevenson's "Treasure Island" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha". Cassandra Jardine, reviewing for "The Daily Telegraph", wrote ""The Salt-Stained Book"... is not just a homage to the Swallows and Amazons stories. Donny and Anna, Jones's fictional characters, live in the contemporary world, escaping social workers, rather than pirates. There's far more emotion than in Ransome's books" but "they share the same confident, risk-taking spirit..." Amanda Craig, reviewing "The Salt-stained Book" for "The Times" "...wasn't sure about the historical framing device that gives the novel
The Swallows of Kabul be hang or shot he still continues to look for Zunaira until everything falls dark and silent. The Swallows of Kabul The Swallows of Kabul is a novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. It was originally written and published in French. You meet Atiq Shaukat, a jailer. His wife, Musarrat, is very sick and dying. She is a burden to him and made him late for work. He escorts a prostitute to be executed. You meet Mohsen Ramat. He's against the new Taliban rule. He is in the market place when he sees a prostitute being stoned to death at