With the Scent of Loss

About this book

Between an absence leaving a scar, and a longing reshaping the soul. Have you ever felt that things have an absence wafting through the air? That loss has a scent memory never misses, slipping from old coats' folds, and settling in the corners of silent rooms? In the book "With the Scent of Loss," writer Reham El-Gabaly takes us on a deep emotional journey, inspired by reality's pulse and the life details we live yet sometimes dare not confess. The tale begins at the breaking point, where the characters' destinies tangle between a royal past that perished leaving rubble of bitter memories, and a present where our heroes try to stand on their feet amid letdowns' storms. It is a work that speaks not only of death, but of "the death of feeling," and those moments when we decide to leave silently because words no longer avail. We accompany a heroine fighting to give her children the safety she missed, and watch a man discover too late that "safety" matters more than "love," and that the hand leaving yours mid-road does not deserve the bother of a glance back. In a measured literary style joining narrative smoothness and social-philosophy depth, Reham El-Gabaly spins tales of gray hair invading not only the head but dwelling in the heart, and of the father who departs leaving a void the size of the universe. It is an invitation for honest self-confrontation, and a reading of our personal history we did not write, but feel in every gasp of pain and every wretched glimmer of hope. "With the Scent of Loss" is a mirror for everyone who stumbled in his search for something and found in his stumbling the truth of himself.