Amina, a baker in sultan's palace, awaits her son's return from a voyage at sea, fearful that the sea has claimed Said. Said begins to make his way home witnessing British colonial oppression along the way. When Said returns and learns the island's slave population is planning a revolt against sultan's tyrannical rule, he and Amina are drawn in.
Zahra has just returned to her hometown after being divorced by her husband for being too traditional and unable to keep up with his modern way of life. Having devoted herself to the creation of independent Morocco, she had expected to share the fruits of independence with him, but instead she finds herself cast out into a strange world.
The first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English
A novel by a Kurdish-Iraqi writer that gives voice to contemporary Iraqi women's experiences of political repression, violence, exile, and the yearning for peace.
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