حكايتي شرحٌ يطول ، حنان الشيخ :تكتب حنان الشيخ في هذه الراوية حكاية والدتها بنفسٍ طويل جداً ، بِـ لغة سهلة سلسة و بِتفاصيل كثيرة الجميل في الحكاية تصويرها كيف تتحول الفتاة الريفية الصغيرة البسيطة الى امرأة متزوجة واقعة في الحب و ايضاً أم! كيف تتعرف على الحياة وَ تعيش بِـ حلم ، و ايضاً كيف تصفع...
رواية أكثر من رائعة تجسد معنى فقدان الطفولة بجرأة عظيمة ولا سيم بأن الكاتبة حنان تسرد رواية أمها والظلم الذي لاقته في غصبها على الزواج .في الحقيقة بداية لم يروق لي أن أجاذف بوقتي الثمين لاقرأ مثل هذه المأساة الا أن شيء ما شدني اليها بقوة ما ان فتحت أولى صفحاتها حتى تملكتني الاحداث والرقي بالسرد و...
But I have learned, as the days have passed, that there is nothing to be gained from regret; it changes nothing, leaves us melancholy and in pain for ever. I was born, ladies and gentlemen, not to a sovereign who reigns over a vast kingdom, not to a merchant, but to a father who was a sailor, who...
Not another word! Listen! Don’t turn me into an infidel and make a mockery of my prayers.’I was silent. I watched a fly swoop down on to my mother’s hand. My throat muscles tightened. The fly took off again and I sat facing my mother without speaking, watching it hover over her dry white skin.‘Ta...
Before that it had been submerged by day-to-day events.The violence going on at the minute has prompted local and international radio networks to keep mentioning them because the area called Al-Dahiya where they’re being held is ablaze now: Amal and Hizbullah are pointing the finger at each other...
It was my fear that the baby would look half like Muhammad and half like my husband.I didn’t want to tell him I was pregnant. So I rejected being intimate with him – I kept saying I wasn’t feeling well, that there wasn’t enough time or that someone might hear us. Finally Muhammad lost patience an...
It appeared to have grown by itself on the summit of the mountain, for how could the clay and earth and little colored glass windows have been transported up there unless a goat had carried them in its teeth? And even a goat would have needed some kind of track; a human being without shoes or san...