About the novel.....
Rashid is a twenty-year-old young man, an orphan of parents. He grows up in the care of his aunt in Dubai. After his aunt’s death, he decides to return to his father’s house in a village in Fujairah. He brings workers to restore the old house and gets to know his neighbors in the village, and the father, Abdullah, and his granddaughter, Maryam.
Voices and ghosts begin to appear from the wall of the house, and each of them tells a story related to Rashid’s parents. The ghosts continue to appear and tell their stories, and Rashid becomes immersed in these stories, until the whole truth comes together about the death of his parents, the fire on his father’s farm, and the location of the treasure that was stolen, and the novel ends with his discovery. For the location of the treasure that Maryam’s father recovered and hid in a safe place until he found it, Rashid also searches for the real Maryam and marries her.
Its events take place in the village of Taiba in central Sudan, Gezira State, and its heroine is a beautiful and educated doctor who holds the threads of the narrative, expressing herself and the main characters in the story. She returns to her village after completing her studies, and makes major changes in the life of the village, and coincidence played a role in her taking the initiative to change. The village is lifted from its slumber within fifteen years, and then she discovers that she has lost her life and her beauty, and that she was loved by everyone, but she remained a spinster. She represents one of a group of six children to whom the school principal predicted brilliance during their primary school period, and through the narration she answers what It happened to them years after the prophecy. One of them was murdered and the other was murdered because of racist tendencies. The history of the murdered man, who descended from a grandfather who was a slave in the past. He dared to propose to the murderer’s sister. The discovery of the secret of the crime in the final chapters gives the novel suspense. One of them dropped out of school and inherited the butcher’s profession. From his father, and he discovered that he was cheating in his slaughtering, and was offering dead animals that had not been slaughtered in a legal manner. Then the climax of the crisis occurred when the doctor met her colleague whom she had left since she was a trainee doctor of excellence, and who was in love with her and had confessed his love to her in a letter thirteen years ago, to discover by chance that he had He lives in the same newly emerging metropolitan neighborhood, after she left the village to live in the capital in order to obtain a medical specialty. Then, leaving the village makes the village collapse and return to what it was, a remote village without lights, after she brought about a spring (change) in it that rarely comes. Because of her activity in the village hospital, He created confidence in its ability to treat the sick, the turnout of the people of neighboring villages, and the establishment of the village market, its expansion and the abundance of activities. The village expanded and took on a greater economic and social dimension, then it collapsed in less than a few months after the doctor (the protagonist of the novel) left the village after her shock and the collapse of her wedding when the police officers arrested her. The groom is arrested accused of murder
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