My Amputated Shadow

About this book

Have you ever tried waking to find your other half has left your body without asking permission? To look in the mirror and not recognize the features that once overflowed with life? Thus began the tale of Salma, the girl planning her wedding, only to find herself in a bitter struggle with a reality that severed her dreams before her arm. In "My Amputated Shadow," we read no mere novel about a painful accident, but sail into the depths of the human psyche when it breaks. We watch how "the kin" deserts under the plea of helplessness, and how "the rescuer" appears from the heart of the rubble. Zain, that shadow which never left Salma a single moment, who gathered her fragments and spent the dear and precious to restore her self-confidence, places us before a fundamental question: is love absolute sacrifice, or is it possession wrapped in mercy? The novel slips between the alleys of the Egyptian alley full of warmth at times, and betrayal at others, ascending us to a breathtaking dramatic peak. When the shadow is complete, the naked truth appears which no one expected. Can the hand that.