Another country

The author deals in this novel with the issues of migration and identity, through the story of a young man "of Arab origins" who migrates to South Africa and falls in love with a South African girl whom he finds as a salvation for his illegal status as an undocumented migrant, while she finds in him an expression of her rejection of her bourgeois environment that resulted from the post-apartheid era in her country. Soon, it is revealed when the girl travels to her beloved's country – who became her husband – after being denied residence in South Africa, leading to a confrontation between two ways of life. There, his journey begins in search of another country to migrate to, while her journey begins in discovering herself through her husband's Arab Muslim village and his family, especially the desert, which becomes her only refuge, amid a storm of questions for both of them about love, homeland, belonging, and identity, which ends in an unexpected way.