In her collection “The Lover of Nothing,” which is a renewed edition of her collection “My Heart is Half a Shining Moon,” Latifa Al-Hajj travels the reader once again to the places she visited in Turkey, the country that fascinated her from the first visit and in which she experienced different feelings. She writes to us from the air about a close meeting and an awaited dream, and in front of a running waterfall, she describes the joy of nature around her, and the joy that overwhelms her in its depths.
She describes sleep escaping from her eyes in the evening, and the sun yawning on the bed of the sky in the morning, about love and the moon, near which a blue butterfly resided, and in her easy, delicate language, she describes to us her longing, longing, and waiting for love and the beloved.
From the group's texts:
My heart is a bright half-moon / Poetry writes itself in my heart / Dervishes are not looking for relaxation / Your last selfie / Take me back to the child / To you I will fly / What joy / Greetings from the waterfall / Dark dreams / Far away as a star / Everything is beautiful, everything is happy / The soft criminal He sings in Yalova
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This book deals with a literary text, or what is called a thought, where the texts talk about the heart, the soul, love, and departure, mixed with some sadness and joy.
The book also contains a number of glimpses or wisdom that reinforce the matters addressed in the texts, either through quotations from intellectuals and writers or from what I have inferred from the past.
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.
