Khadijah and Susan

Do we really know love?! We often give it many forms that have nothing to do with it, we imagine that we love our children, our lovers, our fathers; so we possess them. Our calculations become confused if they do not show the loyalty we expect, and we resist their freedom with more repression and control, producing people who harm themselves and those around them without awareness. In this novel, we experience Khadija and Sawsan, a mother and her daughter, as a result of this mistaken concept of love and ownership; their lives embody the harshest forms of selfishness in humans; and everyone around them, and those who thought they loved them, paid the price for it. Beautiful narration and rich characters, and history is never absent from Radwa Ashour’s writings, and historical events and characters are skillfully intertwined in the novel’s events. Book information: - Author: Radwa Ashour - Year of publication: 2015 - Publisher: Dar Al-Shorouk - Number of pages: 219