ابنة الجحيم

The novel begins in a formless void before time, where a female presence floats, falls and laughs among ghosts without knowing where she is, then follows her into the womb, told by a foetus that senses the world outside. Asma is born in heavy rain as her mother dies, and her silent, passive father soon marries Asia, whom she will hate all her life. After the death of the aunt who raised her on stories of the family, Asma feels an evil spirit within her: she can drag others into her nightmares, and then whoever appears in her dreams dies. She decides to use this power for revenge. Without plot or chronology, the book leaves open whether all this is real or the hallucination of a troubled mind.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

256 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Dar al-Tanwir

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9789938941043 (original)