Nineveh walls - Khuzama library

The novel "The Walls of Nineveh" by the writer Laith Duham, is a narrative work that blends history, love, art, and politics at the same time, through a personal journey of an Iraqi artist named Saeed Jafar, who lives torn between exile and memory, and between a lost love and an occupied plundered country. The novel narrates the story of Iraq after the invasion, through the reflections of its protagonist who works in sculpture, and tries to reshape identity and dignity with stone and marble, amidst great destruction. Features of the Assyrian mythology, the world of art, and classical music intersect in the text, and characters inspired by the Iraqi reality, where the walls have collapsed, appear just as the walls of Nineveh have fallen. It is a novel that glorifies impossible love, laments a broken homeland, and seeks beauty in the heart of pain.