A Woman of Glass

About this book

Between the walls of silence built from the shards of disappointments, tales are born that only the heart can hear. In "A Woman of Glass," Noha Zayada takes us to a world trembling between cruelty and tenderness, where souls are transparent as glass fearing breakage, yet carry in their folds an edge that may wound all who toy with their memory. The journey begins with a silent scream: "Every ruin that happens makes a noise that disturbs the world, except the ruin of hearts.. it happens in silence." And from this silence we set out with Ghufran, that soul finding herself facing a heavy inheritance, and a dark cellar pulsing with secrets whose time has not yet come. Is it mere coincidence for the scattered threads of the past to meet between the alleys of old Cairo and a world that seems woven from clotted blood and mysterious symbols? The novel is no mere story of loss or love, but a deep human struggle between "Sheikh Yassin," who boasts of his authority as if he owns a fire-breathing dragon, and "General Helal," who returned to settle old scores time never folded. Between.