The Moon's Departure: Short Stories

About this book

The Moon's Departure begins from the disorientation of losing a beloved light. A face vanishes, the speaker loses the path home, and even a carefully drawn map cannot end the wandering. El-Sayed Ali Ismail gathers stories around love and separation, life and death, solitude and the longing to belong. Their emotional movement resembles an attempt to collect the scattered pieces of exile and wrap them once more in moonlight, even when return remains uncertain.