Eleven years have passed since Miguel, Alethea, and Lucas met together in one place, when they were teenage friends, and since then, as soon as a connection occurs between two of them, the ghost of the third is present, so that the roles and desires change and it is not really known which of the two young people he loved. Alethea and those who abandoned her are defeated by the other.
In this special novel, the novelist Mario Benedetti dives into the depths of the human soul, contemplating a complex love triangle between two young men and a girl, leaving space for each of them to tell the story from his point of view through diaries, letters, and the story, so that it appears as a different story every time, as if it were three rivers. A small one that eventually flows into the same lake.
My mother's lambs:
I also loved those stories that my mother used to tell me. I loved to tell them to you and pass them on so that you can tell them to your children.
These stories of my mother are in the local dialect and I conveyed them to you on her tongue as I heard them, so that they are closer to your hearts and to increase your loyalty and love for the Emirati dialect and to instill in your souls the stories of our ancestors, as they are a different type of heritage stories known as (the sheep).
Sayings that freed my memory:
Sayings from an inspiring soul are deep meaning sayings from my thoughts that I received from the experiences I lived, so I decided to write them down and collect them in this book with an introduction and presentation containing 71 sayings and a conclusion, which is an excerpt from the introduction to a novel whose events I am still writing down.
“Sarrah” is an immigrant in Sweden. Since the start of the war in her country, she has been unable to write. She seeks to seize the key to freedom of expression, but she faces locks. She works with an autistic child, whose father, Gibran, works in a library and fights discrimination, but he still finds himself in dark basements.
“Gibran” longs for “Sarrah,” and she longs for writing, remembering her days in Hama, and her ambition to find peace.
In this novel, Manhal Al-Sarraj tells us, in a different style of narration and writing, the story of Syrian immigrants in Sweden, their circumstances, and the fragmentation of their relationships, and quietly scatters reflections on existence, life, trust, love, and peace.
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