Among the Past's Corridors

About this book

Between ancient memory's walls, where the ghosts refusing to depart dwell, "Silan" opens doors bolted with the years' rust, to begin the exhausting run in "the past's corridors." Have you ever felt your soul divided between two eras? One you try to live in, and another refusing to release you? This novel is no mere chronicle of a love story, but a deep dissection of nostalgia, and the sunsets igniting in the conscience before setting on the horizon. The tale begins from a train station, and a whistle's sound reordering the chaos of feelings, where Silan meets images she thought the earth had buried, only to reveal that the past is no page to be folded, but a "scent" dwelling in the pores, carrying in its folds the bitterness of fake pride, and the bleeding of hearts wearied by parting. Writer Sherry El-Garf moves masterfully between the present's calm and the memories' din, drawing the features of Silan as she faces her buried aches, her friendships trying to mend what broke, and her first passion returning to tip the scales. "Among the Past's Corridors" is a mirror for everyone who battled madness in moments of loss, and for everyone who once found himself bidding the sun farewell with an orange heart as if dyed by waiting's fire. It is a novel the soul writes for those whom forgetting defied, and invites you to ask yourself: do we inhabit the past, or does it inhabit us?