The sky rains the lotus

Author: Badria Rashid Al-Shamrani Number of pages: 126 pages Publisher: Arab House for Science Publishers - Lebanon The author Badria Rashid Al-Shamrani begins her short story collection "The Sky Rains Lotus" with a personal vision through which she arranges a fabric of beautiful criticism in a deep personal perspective, similar to a philosophy of life: (Love is a rose... planted in the heart, watered with words, grows with action, blooms nearby, withers in absence, dies with separation). From this introduction, the stories of Al-Shamrani unfold with their feminine themes to summarize her pursuit and that of all women for a lost happiness titled (Love). Fulfilling desire, searching for love, and filling the emotional void are the themes around which "The Sky Rains Lotus" revolves. She has adopted the symbol style as a tool to embody images with human dimensions, some of which are explicit and others implicit. The book contains fifteen short stories titled as follows: "The Seven Poppies," "Daffodils Parting from Paintings," "Carnation Winter," "The Buried Jasmine," "The Scent of Kings," "Whisper of Narcissus," "Days of the Nargis"... etc.