Alone on Baraway Island, Ingrid lives after everyone has left, roaming the ruins, repairing what can be repaired, and catching fish and bodies that wash up on the island's shores. The young woman struggles to hide a big secret that could put her in danger, as the country witnesses the final months of World War II.
In this novel, Roy Jacobsen completes the story of Barawe Island, which began with "The Invisibles", with his delicate narration, natural images, and brief sentences that hide the truest and hottest feelings behind them.
“White Sea” is a novel about new beginnings that make their way from the ashes of a devastating war, about friendships and love, the faces of those passing by and the dead, and about people who remain where they are in the face of war, bidding farewell to the departed and receiving those returning, and monitoring the passing of days and the succession of seasons.
في زحمة الحياة، وضوضاء الأصوات، وإزدحام الصُّور، كثيراً ما نسمعُ من يقول: "ليتني أملكُ كوخاً على قمةٍ جبلٍ أعيشُ فيه... على إنفراد"، هرباً من المشاغل والمشاكل،
طاقةٌ مظلمة تُصيب كل من يعيش في هذا البيت الغريب، شقّة عماد الدّين المهجورة منذ سنوات والتي يؤجّرها البواب بسعرٍ زهيد ولكن لم يكمل أحدٌ فيها أكثر من أسبوع قبل أن يوجد مقتولًا أو منتحرًا بعد أن شاهد أصدقاءه يموتون أمام عينه؛ شباب الجامعة، ذلك الرَّجل العاجز، المصوِّر الشاب الذين لقوا نهايات سيئة..
Stories that begin, develop, become complicated, and are interrupted before they resume again. Their heroines: Siranah, Selti, Salma, Khansi, Aishana, women whose paths and destinies intersected in that charming region of northeastern Syria, with which the “Berlin-Baghdad Railway” tampered with and the destinies of its residents. .
From the plains of Mardin, the cities of Amuda and Ras al-Ain, and the villages of Shorik, Kondak, and Tal Halaf, these women whisper secrets in their low, intermittent voices filled with fear and illness. But their stories and songs go beyond their bodies’ struggle with tuberculosis, to immortalize the struggles of the Yazidis, Syriacs, and Armenians with oppression, massacres, and eternal alienation.
In Women of Tuberculosis, Reber Youssef, with his poetic language and his special sensitivity, explores the northeastern region of Syria, including its diversity: ethnic, religious, and racial, relying on in-depth historical, geographical, and anthropological research into what people live in that part of the earth, but he... Through his work, he creates a curiosity to explore history once again, after the northeast of the country now has the face of a woman.
