أطياف

I wonder: this writing hanging between two lives, where does it take me? I stare at the white screen. Slowly my fingers move to press the keys, composing my story and her story. I stop as if I am at a crossroads. I contemplate. I know that "Shajar" now, in this moment I sit to write, is walking alone in the streets. An amazing blend offered by Radwa Ashour in this enjoyable novel. As it addresses here shades of her autobiography intertwined with the story of "Shajar" who accompanied her from start to finish, in a narrative with high flexibility, allowing the author the freedom to write different stories from her personal, family, literary, and university history, as well as soaring high when she reveals the background of all that through political and social events that shape the features of the Arab face in the second half of the twentieth century.