One Night Is Not Enough

About this book

Between flying sand grains on the slopes of Jebel Marra, where wounds sprout before flowers, a tale is born that does not resemble legends but resembles the pain of truth when it collides with a bare chest. 'One Night Is Not Enough' is not merely a novel; it is a long letter hanging in the mail of loss, written by a woman whom war did not break as much as the silent departure did. The story begins from that ominous morning when a quiet village turned to ash, where children fell in playgrounds and innocence was violated in memory's sight, which refuses to forget. And from within this wreckage, fate weaves an exceptional encounter in the displacement camps between 'Ansa,' the girl who lost everything, and an officer in the Sudanese army who came to defeat the rebellion only to fall captive to her eyes. In this work, Mostafa Halilawi takes us on a wondrous human journey, progressing between the coldness of death and the heat of encounters stolen behind tent walls. It is a sharp confrontation with pride, and a constant question about the justice of a life that grants us love.