Suleima's Ring

Several narrators tell the intertwined stories of Lucas, a Spanish Jewish photographer, and Salma, a woman from Aleppo, moving between Aleppo and Toledo. Salma is in love with Shams al-Din, an Italian musician who has settled in Aleppo; Lucas has his own lover, Lola, and a son. The ring Salma gives Lucas echoes the legendary ring of Solomon and its magic. The three come from different backgrounds and want different things, but they share a love of Aleppo, a seductive and betrayed city, in a world of Sufism, perfumers, dreams and passion that leads up to the recent war in Syria.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

304 pages in the original

Genres

Love, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Syria, Spain

First published

2022 by Tanmia

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9789776633599 (original)

9781623715519 (Interlink Books, United States)