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Maryam, a Cairo psychiatrist who grew up under a harsh mother and has lost her husband, is weary of life and of medicine. In May 2010 women from the novels on her father's shelves begin to enter her world: Amina, the dutiful wife from Palace Walk, arriving from 1919; Catherine Earnshaw, from 1847; Virginia Woolf, lost near al-Husayn. They come from a secluded house of women among hills, lake and forest, where they are warned never to heed the sirens' songs and no one is sure who is real, who is a ghost and who is only a story. As the months run toward January 2011, the book asks what happens when the walls between eras fall, and how to find a faith worth living.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Dar al-Shorouk

Author's age

54 when first published