Heart of the Night

Cover Heart of the Night
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Genres: Fiction
When we stepped aside to let them pass, I was able to see the women up close, most probably a mother and a daughter, very much alike. The daughter wore a long belted black dress, was draped in a black shawl, and had on a loose burqa that revealed her eyes. She was barefoot and held a spindle.”
Jaafar fell silent for a long time.
“What happened?” I asked.
He turned toward me and said, “I, too, wonder what happened.”
“What do you mean?”
He went on: “To sum it up, I looked at the girl’s eyes and w
...as struck by a state of total madness. But let’s leave this for the time being and discuss it later. I will tell you now what happened. I felt I had died and that a new person was born through me. You will even agree with me that it was a new person in the full meaning of the word, a person with no connection to the one who had just died, a drunkard whose heart overflowed with passion and who had an extraordinary capacity for defiance and struggle. I heard Muhammad Shakroun say, ‘When will you resume walking?’ He then examined me closely and smiling, said, ‘It must be the shepherdess!’ “‘It’s fate,’ I replied.MoreLess

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