A 2021 'BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO' (Guardian) Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, a devastating story of displacement, war, and the unlikely glimmer of hope in the dark In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six strangers are compelled to share their darkest secrets. Taking pen to paper, each attempts to put in writing what they can't bring themselves to say to the person they love mother, father, brother, lost love. Their words form a chain of dark confessions, none of which ...