From a meeting between Mihai, who is spending his honeymoon in Italy, with an old friend, the events of this novel begin. He soon finds himself leaving his wife at a train station, and begins his own journey, searching for himself and the memories of his youth. Traveling from one city to another, Mihai experiences the anxiety of his existential questions, and meets friends of that period. He learns the reason for Tamas’ suicide, and Eva’s relationship to this incident, but what does he really want from recalling stories told by time?
In this novel, which is considered one of the most prominent Hungarian novels in the modern era, which achieved great success, was translated into several languages, and was adapted for theater and cinema, the reader feels as if the author is able to penetrate his depths, and not only the depths of his characters.
And those days:
Life is a ship floating on a mysterious, strange, and insecure sea that presents you with dreams as sweet as the golden threads of the setting sun’s rays sent through the spectacles of the picturesque red twilight.
Memories from the writer’s life, with its various chapters, and a reflecting mirror of all the paths she took.
Summary of the novel My 29th Letter by Hanaa Al-Awwad
Every departing voice has a returning echo, and every beauty has a crown.
Therefore, what Taj is experiencing is nothing but Waid's reaction to Jamal's actions in his life.
Although what they have in common is nothing more than describing it as an unfortunate accident in which he lost a finger on his palm, and she lost her future.
Between them is a vast distance of disappointments cut by bumps of regret.
Insulating walls are myths that have established their steadfast concrete on the foundations of a society with ready-made provisions.
An eclipse does not fall outside the scope of divine wrath, and an eclipse is a punishment and a warning from God, and all cosmic and even political events are only the beginning of the end of the world.
The breezes of the Euphrates River mixed Taj's rosy dreams until they drowned and suffocated her, and when she gasped, refusing to die, she banished her far away and forever to London.
It became the twenty-ninth letter to her husband, the writer Wissam, whose depression ends in suicide.
This is the curse that haunted Jamal until it blinded him.
It is Rasheed's ready and beautiful revenge against Wissam. Rashid, the owner of the publishing house and Wissam’s friend, fell into the trap of her temptation before thinking of killing her.
It was the goal, the goal, and the perfect scoop for Alaa Ibn Jamal. Then it quickly turned into a race against himself and his age to catch her heart.
A novel about women emerging from societies whose rulings and customs did not regulate their judiciary.
The events take place in 2017 between London, Paris, and Raqqa, the stricken Syrian city.
The novel is divided into a number of voices and echoes:
• Each sound represents the life of the hero (Jamal), a former teaching assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus, and a brilliant film director, who lives in Paris with his son Alaa.