The insulated, by: René Bazin

Five poor nuns dedicated their lives to worship, helping the needy, and teaching their daughters, content with their simple life in their house which was their residence and school until the authorities decided to demolish the building, evacuate them, and force them to leave the life of nuns and enter the worldly life which they had abandoned by their will years ago, and seek shelter, a source of livelihood, and protection that became out of reach, even a source of temptation for those who could not withstand the temptations of the new life. "Al-Mu'azzala" is a novel depicting social, economic, and ideological life in France at the beginning of the last century, and the consequences of secularism laws that were enacted to separate religion from the state, as it fights religion even in its strongholds, and also portrays the manifestations of misery among the working class and the poor through a beautiful depiction of life in Lyon, the city of the two rivers, and Nîmes, one of the historic cities overlooking the Mediterranean. Translator: Abu Bakr Al-Ayadi. Number of pages: 252