A Woman and the Rest of Women

About this book

Between the alleys of longing and the harbors of wonder, Samir Sabry weaves in his book 'A Woman and the Rest of Women' a different alphabet, one that does not search for woman in the features of faces but traces her in the trembling of light and the stillness of dawn. This work is not merely literary texts but a journey into 'the engineering of the soul' unknowable by ordinary senses, where words turn into 'a compass of wonder' in an age when meanings were lost. The author takes us to a world where femininity is 'a prophecy of passion never fulfilled,' and a refuge gathering the fragments of estrangement. The style skillfully progresses between the mystery of the first moment when the heart chooses before one knows oneself, and the inspiration of a presence that awakens 'a sleeping spring' in barren souls. It is a book for those who search for that woman 'created from rose water or from jasmine longing,' at whose mere passing iron forgets its hardness to remember it was once part of life's pulse. In 'A Woman and the Rest of Women,' Samir Sabry pours his endeavor into cups of poetry and prose, wagering.