The distant return

Author's name: Fouad Al-Takreli Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: Literary classification: Book summary: Al-Raja' Al-Baeed (The Distant Return) (Complete Works 1) by Fouad Al-Takreli ... The novel addresses an important and bloody period of Iraq's political history culminated by the bloody February 8 coup. The heroes of the novel are the brothers Medhat and Abdul Karim, both attracted to their young cousin, teacher Munira, each in his own way, and both fail to save her when she is raped in the rural city of Baquba by her nephew, Adnan, who belongs to the National Guard. The final chapters of the novel focus on the exhausting internal struggle in Medhat's mind to understand the meaning of what happened to him so he can know what to do afterward. And when he finally decides — amidst the bloody events — to return to Munira because he realizes that his love for her is more important than anything else.