Heiress of the Great Dream

About this book

On the dream that never ages.. and the certainty blooming at forty. Can a dream sleep long without dying? And does the soul have the luxury of returning to zero after life weighed it down with details? In "Heiress of the Great Dream," writer Wahiba Gamal Abdel-Karim takes us on a deep emotional journey, transcending its being a mere autobiography to become a literary plea for recovered hope. The tale begins from the eyes of a little girl called Yaqeen (Certainty), who watched her teacher father tame letters for his pupils, planting in her conscience a seed she did not know would face fierce storms. Between a quiet village's alleys and innocent ambitions, the dream grew, but reality had another opinion; the fracture shock at the baccalaureate was no mere academic failure, but a mute earthquake silencing ambition for years. Yaqeen receded behind marriage and motherhood responsibilities, and the teacher's apron became a phantom waving on the far horizon, while she busied herself building her children's dreams. But "only despair makes wrinkles," and the dream refused to die.