Di Parm

About this book

Between the Indian Ocean's foam and the Arabian Gulf shores' sands, a tale is born that never dies, a tale scripted with sword's edge and gunpowder's smell. "Di Parm" is no mere historical novel, but a harrowing journey into the human psyche's depths when colonial-ambition waves and survival struggles toss it. The tale begins from an infant's scream aboard a Bahraini pilgrims' ship, that scream turning into a curse haunting the invaders and drawing an era of fracture and resistance features. Writer Rasul Darwish takes us on a journey across time to 1502, where the reader accompanies the Portuguese fleet led by "Afonso de Albuquerque" on its way to subjugate the East. Through varied characters' eyes we see war's ugly face; we see Korea torn between loyalty to his king and his conscience's remnants, and Teixeira the Jewish translator chronicling history with a quill dipped in blood and secrets. In this din's heart emerge intensely sweet and painful human stories; princesses' stories in Hormuz palaces, and Arab leaders' steadfastness like Sultan.