Sarmada

Fadi Azzam

Thaqafa
Language: Arabic
1. Edition (2011)
Paperback, 222 pages
ISBN 9789948446231
Availability: next-day delivery
14.00 € 

Auf der Shortlist für den International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2012. Documentary producer Rafi Azmi meets a strange woman in Paris - a Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne - who informs him that she has lived a previous life in his village of Sarmada, in southern Syria. It turns out that she is the reincarnation of a woman murdered by her brothers in an honour killing. Affected by her story, Rafi returns to his hometown, to discover an entire world previously hidden from him. The woman’s story leads him to delve into the depths of the place and uncover its secrets, desires, beauty and the co-existence of its people of different religions.