Summary of the novel (Gypsy Female) This novel tells the story of a disabled Iraqi Christian girl whose mother died while giving birth to her. She lived under the care of a doctor father who sought the help of a colleague at work to raise his only daughter, but this woman is also kidnapped by death, so the girl lives with her father, who she mysteriously loses during the invasion of Kuwait, leaving for Baghdad at a time when Hunger and comprehensive siege, and she lives there between a close Christian couple until they die, leaving “Asmaa”, having lost her three mothers in succession. She remains alone, fighting the hell of bloody violence spreading in her Iraqi homeland until she leaves it to other homelands, as if she were a gypsy female tormented by travel as she climbed the walls of that country. Towering nations with one arm. It is the story of an Arab girl who is ravaged by the horrors of what the world is experiencing around her, but she creates life with a unique feminine ability as she moves between several homelands like a shivering bird searching for a nest that might shelter it in a forest whose tree leaves have fallen in a weeping autumn. This narrative may announce (the death of the novelist), but knowledge of this can only be determined by the reader as he follows the aesthetics of the narrative in it.
Maryam, who suffered two miscarriages, lives with delusions and fantasies that make her life resemble a whirlpool of a novel. She is influenced by the novels she reads and immersed in their events that bring her back to the memories of her childhood and adolescence, in light of her conservative family that imposes strict restrictions on her in the name of religion, customs and traditions.
"Chanca", "Texcacal", and "Chon Bum" are three cities in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula that enjoyed great religious importance during the class war waged by the Mayas against the Spanish colonizers. The religious importance of these cities is due to their being centers of the phenomenon of speaking crosses.
In this wonderful book, the French writer (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008) tells, with great poetry, about his observations in these towns, in a captivating style. The trees, the water, the wind, the forests, the sky, and the earth, all of them become humanized in Le Clezio’s writing, as He has a unique ability to transform nature and its elements into vibrant, sensual things.