Description: In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets a strange and reticent man named Naseem, and they soon begin a tense affair. But when Naseem, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he sends Suleima the unfinished manuscript of his novel. To Suleima's surprise, she and the novel's protagonist are uncannily similar. As she reads, Suleima's past overwhelms her and she has no idea what to trust--Naseem's pages, her own memory, or nothing at all? Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman portrayed in Naseem's novel, The Frightened Ones is a boundary-blurring, radical examination of the effects of oppression on one's sense of identity, the effects of collective trauma, and a moving window into life inside Assad's Syria.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Illustrator: Yes
Original Language: Arabic
Book Title: Frightened Ones : a Novel
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: Eng,Ara
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Psychological, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Magical Realism, Political
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Dima Wannous
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
