The End of Yearning Is Rebellion

About this book

Can time forgive the sin of absence, or does memory, when it ages, leave nothing but reproach? In the novel "The End of Yearning Is Rebellion," we find ourselves before a phone call coming from "lost time," as the phone's ring pierces the stillness of eighty years in the life of Nermin. Between the astonishment of gaping at the screen and the heartbeats nearly leaping from her ribs, the face of Nazem appears from the darkness of the past, carrying the dust of thirty years of separation, wars, and broken promises. The novel takes us on an emotional journey across borders, from the banks of the Volga River in Russia, to the Nile shore in Egypt, reaching the Tigris and Euphrates where the blood of battles mixed with the tears of lovers. It is the tale of an Iraqi officer tossed by the waves of politics after the fall of Baghdad, and a woman of Syrian roots and Egyptian heart, whose dreams were lost with the birth of a child gathering the fragments of their two identities between doctors' clinics and corridors of estrangement. When Nazem's voice trembles weeping, and Nermin confronts him with the bitterness of loss and the cruelty of excuses, we realize this novel is no mere.