The Green Paper

About this book

Between the frost of principles and the blaze of desire, a thin thread stretches that only those whose souls were burned by experience can see. In "The Green Paper," we enter the world of Dalia Al-Shimi, a woman who drew her strength from the stabs of betrayal and resolved to rewrite the laws of existence to serve her wounded pride. But can fleeing a den of poverty into the space of wealth wash the memory clean of the past's ghosts? And is the power she displays a true shield or merely a glass mask about to shatter before the first wind of doubt? The novel takes us on a wondrous psychological and spatial journey, at times through the corridors of politics and the halls of conferences abuzz with debates on women's rights and polygamy, and at other times into the depths of the Kalahari desert, where ancient African legends and the mystery of the Bushmen tribes lie. There, where obsessions take the form of "spotted hyenas" and souls howl in the dark of night, the protagonists search for "the green paper"; a document representing not merely a law, but a crossroads between.