Tree of misery

A brief about the Tree of Misery - Taha Hussein: As if misery has a tree whose roots strike into our souls, feeds on our days, and absorbs our vitality and hopes, then bears fruits of thorns and prickles that we obtain reluctantly, so there is no escape from our predetermined fate. The novel in your hands is the story of a miserable rural girl whom life did not show mercy to, adding to her pain upon pain; the man who married her did so out of necessity to honor his father’s will, not out of love and dignity. How (by God) could anyone accept to marry a poor and ugly girl like her?! He lives with her in hatred and bitterness, and her suffering is increased by the bad treatment she constantly receives from her mother-in-law. Then she bears daughters who are not better off than their mother, as they inherited her misery, and they find no comfort except in the embrace of the grave.