In 1949, writer Helen Hanff began correspondence with a used bookstore in London, asking them to help her secure some classic books that she could not find in New York. Over the course of 20 years, letters are exchanged between her and the store’s employees, especially Frank Doyle, who secures the books and sends them to her. This correspondence begins with a request for a copy of Hazlitt’s Three Essays and gradually deepens, building a transparent human relationship between book lovers on both sides of the ocean. In the details of their personal lives on the one hand, and chronicling the history of the two countries on the other hand, it includes talk about the food crisis in Britain after rationing, the pivotal elections in both countries, the sports clubs, their social life, Frank’s family news, the development of Helen’s professional career, and even the method of making pudding.
The story does not contain any truth at all
It was inspired by my vast imagination, and the reasons for writing it were a challenge I faced one day. I needed to write a new story on my own website in 2008, and today I am resubmitting it after printing it on paper.
In a time when speech has no value, Younes decided to remain silent.
What is the benefit of what he says when he is weak, strange, and free from the constraints of twenty-six years that he spent in a world of fear, loneliness, and near death?!!
Wherever he went and wherever he moved, he was pursued by curses and oppression. Even his attempts to search for a part of his precious past with his wife and son were useless...!
In his relationship with “Abu Al-Rish,” he felt some reassurance from all the alienation that nestled in his heart, but that was not enough for him to find stability and end his torment and loneliness!!
The new circumstances of the country, and the changes in the government, increase his flight and confusion, despite his attachment to all the good people who surrounded him during his ordeal.
“Younes” who longed for everything... nothing saved him!!
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