Tears of the Sun

About this book

Between the mazes of destinies and the threads of oblivion. When the moon completes its light on its fourteenth night and the sun prepares to set leaving its last twilight rays behind, a different tune is played for the universe; a tune blending the peak of happiness with the deepest pains of sudden calamity. At that decisive moment hours before an awaited wedding, everything overturns, and the platforms of joy suddenly turn into a silent funeral for a murdered birth. Layla finds herself drowning in a well of abandonment, unconscious on a sickbed, seeking in drops of serum and sedatives a way to weave the threads of an ending as escape from the shards of an accident that assaulted her brutally. But days do not age, and fate refuses to stop at failed thresholds. Between the prayers of a mother resisting despair and the longing of memories extending from the old alleys of the Casbah to the streets of Algiers clamoring with the calls of freedom and protest, another journey begins: a journey in which souls search for an escape hole out of the vicious circle, proving that the breaking destroying our inner pillars may itself be the beginning of rebuilding the self. Destinies intertwine and geography widens; threads extend across the two shores upward to Paris and downward toward the magic of the Algerian desert and the enchanting sands of Taghit. And when the characters think they pressed the end button on a past love, a strange suspicious visitor places all humanity before a shared destiny, so stories of love, revolution, betrayal, and the search for truth hidden in the depths of the human psyche intermingle. Tears of the Sun is not merely a novel about loss and pain but a splendid human literary epic, searching in the palm of the impossible for a bright page and teaching us how to free ourselves from the prison of defeat to emerge victorious by the power of the soul.