Hate praise

This novel penetrates a period of Syrian history and re-raises burning questions about the conflict between fundamentalists and the authority, the end and beginning of the 1970s and 1980s, a period in which the culture of hatred nearly destroyed everything green and dry. The novel leads readers from the enchanting city of Aleppo and the worlds of its women and their secret lives to Afghanistan, passing through Riyadh, Aden, London, and other places.