The dark side of love

The dark side of love in a new edition of Khaled Al-Jubaili's translation (Al-Jamal Publications 2015) will find readers their way through this novel to its surprising ending that talks about forbidden love between two people not for religious reasons but because both families, the hero and heroine of this novel, are in constant war, and the novel talks about more than a hundred years of the history of these two families and their environment, which changed outwardly but remained stagnant in essence… This is what the author of the novel, Rafiq Shami, says, who introduced it with an introduction explaining the circumstances of writing and translating the novel then the decision to publish it in Arabic, after this novel attracted the interest of literary criticism pages in major newspapers, topped the list of best-selling books, and despite its large size, was translated into more than ten languages, and the novel also topped the sales list in Italy, Spain, and other countries. The author says: I want to tell the truth that I found great pleasure in reading the novel text, as Khaled Al-Jubaili translated it with precise reading and comparison to the original, and refining what missed the target and restoring what was accidentally omitted or through transitioning from one language to another, then to a third… Therefore, I was pleased to work on this novel, and it revived all my memories of the time I wrote it — the sixties of the last century — and sparked my curiosity in renewed search for the truth when Khaled Al-Jubaili's translation raised a question for me…