My beloved is mute

Number of pages: 127 pages Publisher: Arab House for Science Publishers The novel "My Silent Beloved" tells the story of a love between a young Saudi man (Hattan) and his mute cousin (Hanin) who exchange secret messages and conversations about society and family, until love leads Hattan to speak to his mother to marry his beloved, but his mother completely rejects his request. His mother's rejection led him to distance himself from his beloved out of feeling of failure, and not wanting to involve her more with his story of society's judgment that she would fail because she is "the perfect man." Unable to fulfill his promise to marry her, he got involved in a passing love story with another.