Strangers Among Us

About this book

During a freezing December night in Damascus, a narrator burdened by loneliness lives with his kind and steadfast grandfather on Mount Qasioun. Their fragile peace is broken when Amjad Darwish, an assertive and selfish half-brother, arrives with an urgent summons from the mother who abandoned her son and remained a stranger to him. Against a background of hunger, power cuts, and a society scarred by hardship, Abdullah Al-Hussein explores family estrangement, false belonging, sacrifice, and the strength that can grow from suffering.