A Love Ripe to Fall

About this book

Between the corridors of memory extending from the quiet countryside of Dakahlia to the din of estrangement and its shadows, writer Karim El-Sayed Pasha weaves us a human tale excessive in its honesty, beginning with the birth scream of a child surrounded by love before grasping its meaning. Akram, that boy whose eyes opened on the greenness of the earth and the kindness of grandparents, did not know his search for "pure love" would be his hardest journey and his doomed fate. The novel takes us on an emotional journey transcending the bounds of time and place, where we accompany our hero as he takes his first steps toward discovering the self amid waves of challenges; from the awe of estrangement and the stammering of beginnings, to moments of imminent loss and the strength drawn from a mother's prayers. It is the story of the eternal struggle between what we wish for and what fate writes for us, between the image of ideal love drawn by cinema screens in our hero's imagination, and the reality testing our solidity at every turn. "A Love Ripe to Fall" is no mere narration of a biography, but a mirror reflecting our breakdowns and aborted dreams.