Nineveh Walls - Laith Daham

Author: Laith Dhamam Publisher: Khuzamiloon Library Paper: Suede Number of pages: 209 The novel "Walls of Nineveh" by writer Laith Dhamam is a narrative work that blends history, love, art, and politics at the same time, through a personal journey of an Iraqi artist named Saeed Jafar, who lives torn between exile and memory, and between a lost love and an occupied plundered country. The novel narrates the story of Iraq after the invasion, through the reflections of its protagonist who works in sculpture, and tries to reshape identity and dignity with stone and marble, amidst the great destruction. Features of the Assyrian legend, the world of art, and classical music intersect in the text, and characters inspired by the Iraqi reality, in which the walls have crumbled, appear — just as the walls of Nineveh have fallen. It is a novel that glorifies impossible love, laments a broken homeland, and seeks beauty in the heart of pain.