Bride's water

Author's name: Khalil Sawailh Publisher: Al-Matbouaat Publishing and Distribution Company Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: A novelist finds himself immersed in drafts of a novel that was never completed, due to his feeling that he would enter a minefield! Thus, the author engages with the novelist and the subject in drawing interconnected maps according to the intensities of memory and the courage of confessions: a robbed and tormented childhood that the novelist calls upon to repair blurry images he did not dissect properly in his previous novels, trying to turn the soil with another plow, in addition to current events that placed him in the midst of difficult questions about the meaning of loss, humiliation, and submission. In doing so, he condenses the history of a devastated land with fleeting signals that blend the personal with the public, myth with harsh living, dreams with nightmares, instinct with alert senses, funerals with stories of love, and desert sands with the whiteness of cotton bells. Walking through the streets of Damascus today, he chases his characters through its alleys, cafes, and ancient buildings like a topography in a maze.