Owned houses and others are rented, fleeting and temporary dwellings, between which the writer moves across different Syrian cities, turning the houses into stations, or rest stops that allow her to contemplate the context of her life, her choices, and the source of her desire to remain between closed doors. The subjective nature of the book turns it into a kind of personal testimony, but Nour Abu Farraj is betting that her memories may intersect to a large degree with the experiences of middle-class young men and women from the 1980s generation in Syria, who lived a relatively stable life, before the war came and made a difference in their context. Forcibly expel them from their safe spaces.
In the face of the transience and uncertainty that war brings, description becomes a tribute to the fleeting; This is why the book tries to remind readers of the long time it takes to build a house, in the symbolic or structural sense, but it nonetheless warns them against becoming captives to the place, and encourages them to carry their homes as souvenirs, or small luggage on their long journey.
Sweet Batush, Batoul, Turkish Comfort, Mrs. Hard Coin, different names for one woman whose trace has been lost, and finding her alive or dead has become necessary so that her family can obtain a large estate inherited by the mysterious woman; The journey to search for her becomes an opportunity to discover the secrets of the high society of which Batoul was once a part. It is a journey of ups, downs, and transformations of a woman who manipulated everyone and took revenge on them in order to avenge an injustice after she hid a mysterious secret behind her captivating laugh.
In this book, Aziz Nissin directs his harsh criticism to expose the “rot” that has befallen the velvety layers of society, and the opportunism, vulgarity, and absence of values that prevail in them, but he does so by mocking the situations and paradoxes that make men blind their eyes to what they do not want to believe, and voluntarily surrender. To the deceptions and vicissitudes of a sweet Kaptosh playful girl.
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