There are few writers who have chronicled with such honest clarity and such bold honesty the development of the soul through the stages of life. Peter Kamintsend (1904), Damian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), The Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), and The Journey to the East (1932) are different versions of a spiritual autobiography, and different depictions of the path of Joan. Each new step refines the image of all previous steps, and each experience opens new worlds of exploration in a continuous effort to communicate the vision.
Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, was closely connected to the Indian world. He was influenced by Eastern philosophies. When he was once asked about the most important influences in his life, he said that they were “the Christian and never nationalistic spirit of my parents’ house,” “reading Chinese masterpieces,” and “the personality of the historian Jacob Burckhardt.”
In the veins of her hand, jasmine grows:
A very difficult life is lived by (Mahra), who was forced by circumstances to live in the house of her mother, who is married to another man, after the death of her father. Feelings of fatherhood begin to overwhelm her with the relationship between her stepfather and her brothers, until (Mahra) meets the knight of her life (Hareb) and lives with him in a state of love. The sincere and pure one, so that she believes that the world is smiling at her after she saw in him the main compensation for the feeling of deprivation that she suffered in her life. She is soon shocked to discover that he is married and separated from his wife and with whom he has two children. Mahra enters into a whirlpool of conflict between her mind and her heart. Should she turn? to :
- What her heart beats with in terms of love, adoration, and feelings of love with (he fought and living with him).
Or her mind controls her sense of the horror of what will happen to his two children as a result of her relationship with their father and causes them to feel the deprivation that she suffered from in her life.
Dear reader:
Meet me at the end of the book to find out what Mahra did....!!!???????
Israa Al Hosani....