Originally published as Le suicide et le chant: poésie populaire des femmes pachtounes. Copyright © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1994.

Translation copyright © 2003 Marjolijn de Jager

Reprinted 2010

ISBN 9781590513989

Production Editor: Robert D. Hack

Ebook ISBN 9781635421279

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Majruh, Baha al-Din, 1928–

[Suicide et le chant. English]

Songs of love and war : Afghan women’s poetry / Sayd Bahodine Majrouh; translated from the Pashtun into French, adapted and introduced by André Velter and the author; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager.

    p. cm.

Translated from French.

ISBN 1–59051–081–X (alk. pbk.)

1. Pushto poetry–Women authors–Translations into English. 2. Women–Afghanistan–Social conditions–Poetry. I. De Jager, Marjolijn. II. Velter, André. III. Title.

PK6819.M35A26 2003

891′.59310809287–dc21

2003013367

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