Empty bed

Author's name: Ahlam Mosteghanemi Publisher: Nofal for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2015 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: The hero of "Chaos of the Senses" himself, the photographer Khaled, returns here, in the third and final part of the author's trilogy Ahlam Mosteghanemi. But he is the one writing now, not the author, the heroine of the previous two parts. He is in Paris to receive an award he won for a photograph, when he visits an art exhibition, and is surprised by paintings of the bridges of Constantine. He discovers they are by an artist named Zian, exhibited by a French woman named Françoise. He quickly finds out that Zian, the famous Algerian painter, is none other than Khaled bin Toubal, the hero of Memory of the Flesh and the love of his life (and consequently, that Françoise is none other than Catherine)... He enters into a relationship with Françoise, stays at her house (which is also Zian's house) while Zian is in the hospital being treated for cancer. He requests an appointment with him under the pretext of conducting a journalistic interview. Also in Paris, he meets his friend Mourad, who tells him that Nasser, his friend and son of Si Al-Taher Abdul Moulai, will come to meet his mother and sister in Paris. Thus, in a strange coincidence, Khaled finds himself again in the orbit of his former lover, Hayat. But he has finished with her, and he is now burying her by writing this book, as she usually does with her lovers.