Do Not Die by the War

About this book

Have you ever thought the real war does not always erupt with the sound of bullets or the roar of explosions? Sometimes the harshest battles break out in the silence of narrow corridors inside our homes, in the glances we fear to interpret, and in the words cast like salt over wounds not yet healed. In the novel "Do Not Die by the War," Nourhan Nasr Ibrahim takes us into the world of Mariam, that young woman who thought the hardest thing she might face was the sudden loss of her parents in a treacherous car accident. But she discovers surviving death does not necessarily mean remaining alive; for true death may begin when you feel a stranger in your own house, when the sister to whom you gave your life sees in your existence a burden, in your food a waste, and in your care an unbearable meddling. Between the halls of a bank in Cairo's clamor and confession sessions in which Mariam tries to gather her soul's fragments, events escalate to draw us a complex picture of "the hidden evil" behind familiar faces. Are we truly who we think we are? Or is the.