مرايا الغياب

On the eve of a birthday cruise meant to revive her cold marriage, Amna receives a letter from the school of her daughter Minyar reporting the girl's absences. Her husband, al-Nasir, meets her panic with accusing looks, and the family's inability to talk to one another breaks into the open. The novel opens near its end, with Amna waiting at a crowded airport to fly to Syria with a journalist, Imad, in search of the daughter who has joined the war there, her husband having refused to come. Moving between dialogue, interior monologue and memory, it follows a mother who, each time she dreams of freedom, finds herself more bound than before.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

172 pages in the original

Genres

Family, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Tunisia, Syria

First published

2016 by Dar Zaynab

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789973982490 (original)