Title: Jasmine has a story
Genre: Dramatic romantic novel
Number of pages: approximately 100
The idea:
Al-Yasmine's story is a novel that tells the story of the child Ghaith, who grew up alone, isolated, orphaned and living under the care of his grandparents. He found in Yasmine the wind that revived his body, and she became his everything and his eternal love from the time she came as a little girl to visit her grandparents until she became a young woman. Circumstances made it so that she lived with him in the same house, so that their attachment to each other increased in a strange way and their relationship became stronger. Ghaith worked hard to graduate and get a prestigious job in order to propose to her wealthy diplomat father, who ruled that this love would not last. They separated so that Yasmine left to study outside the country. Ghaith could not stay in a place that held her memories. He returned to his isolation, deciding to move away in order to forget her and become busy with his work as a soldier outside the country, devoting himself to serving the nation. Until that day came, five years later, when Yasmine decided to enter his life again, as she was unable to forget him. Ghaith, who was angry at her reappearance and unable to face his feelings towards her and making it difficult for her to forget her, tries to distance her from him. However, they fall in love with each other again with greater force. Ghaith decides to propose to her for the second time, but her father's insistence on refusal cuts off all hope of their reunion. Until fate decided, years later, that Ghaith was injured during a military exercise and transferred to the hospital where Yasmine worked as a doctor, to get to know his wife, who proved to her that Ghaith still loved her.
Stories that begin, develop, become complicated, and are interrupted before they resume again. Their heroines: Siranah, Selti, Salma, Khansi, Aishana, women whose paths and destinies intersected in that charming region of northeastern Syria, with which the “Berlin-Baghdad Railway” tampered with and the destinies of its residents. .
From the plains of Mardin, the cities of Amuda and Ras al-Ain, and the villages of Shorik, Kondak, and Tal Halaf, these women whisper secrets in their low, intermittent voices filled with fear and illness. But their stories and songs go beyond their bodies’ struggle with tuberculosis, to immortalize the struggles of the Yazidis, Syriacs, and Armenians with oppression, massacres, and eternal alienation.
In Women of Tuberculosis, Reber Youssef, with his poetic language and his special sensitivity, explores the northeastern region of Syria, including its diversity: ethnic, religious, and racial, relying on in-depth historical, geographical, and anthropological research into what people live in that part of the earth, but he... Through his work, he creates a curiosity to explore history once again, after the northeast of the country now has the face of a woman.
In “Friendship with Wittgenstein’s Nephew,” which is considered the sweetest and most humanly warm of all that Bernhard wrote, the writer talks about his relationship with Powell, the nephew of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the bonds of friendship that had united the two when the writer was being treated in a sanatorium for lung diseases. , while Powell was an inmate just steps away from him in a mental hospital.
In an endless narrative breath, the Austrian writer describes the last years of his friend's life, which also reflects part of Thomas Bernhard's autobiography, and his reflections on life and death, literature and art, reason and madness.
