Burdened with noble goals, five young Frenchmen embark on a journey to deliver humanitarian aid to the Kakani region in Bosnia, during the period of civil war, but what began as a dangerous humanitarian mission on a bumpy road in the snow and cold, took a different path that made all their assumptions subject to question and skepticism. What's really in the boxes? Where are they going? What awaits them there on the other end? In addition to having to cross real checkpoints, they will also face more difficult intellectual barriers. What do the victims really need: survival or victory? What must be found: the animal survival instinct that requires only food and housing, or the human sense of dignity that requires means of resistance?
In an interesting and well-paced plot, the French writer Jean-Christophe Ruffin raises very profound questions about humanitarian work: its feasibility, its motives, and how to be truly humanitarian to the fullest extent. These are questions that the novel's characters keep asking themselves, and to each other, throughout a dangerous journey that may change their convictions, and perhaps their destinies, forever.
Aguilar realizes that something irreparable has happened to his wife as soon as he enters the hotel room where she is staying. He tries to discover the identity of the man who was with her, and to find out what specifically happened that put her in this strange state, but he discovers how little he knows about the deep turmoil hidden in the past of this woman, who found that her only weapon was to build her own world and withdraw behind the thick walls of madness.
Through a revolving narrative, Colombian writer Laura Restrepo enters the minds of four characters, trying to reveal their contradictions, their stormy lives, their turmoil, and their intimate details, charmingly intertwining violence, crime, love, and loyalty.
“Delirium,” which won the Alphaguara Prize in 2004, is a novel that, through the succession of voices it narrates, will immerse you in vortexes of delirium, too.
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.
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