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Language and Reality
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search for peace
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Locations in Like Two Rivers
Cairo seemed as complex, unpredictable, familiar, and as real as where she had just come from, but in a way, she could not easily decipher. The frustration of sensing that the unfamiliar was nothing but a well-known story written with a different alphabet, halftones, and an incomprehensible grammar, made her feel stupid.
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“Unexpectedly Nabil stepped out into an octagonal courtyard. In the centre sat a beautiful star shaped basin. Two overlaid squares turned around a common centre. Eight-pointed. Around him there were twelve dark door openings. Above them were twelve dark portholes. Through a circular aperture in the top of the tall dome, he saw above him the distant paleness of Aleppo’s winter sky. He had never seen anything like it.” ( from The Octagonal Room)
Continue readingThe journey through Like Two Rivers
“You and I are like two rivers running for the same ocean, when we meet, we are lost forever”.
In this novel, a long journey through confusion towards clarity is described. As it moves through both time and space, it takes you from Parisian suburbs and Copenhagen hipster town, through eighties Istanbul, pre-war Aleppo, and bohemian Cairo, to old Bucharest, and up into the timeless hidden valleys of the Himalaya… and further
Among the dramatically different characters, we meet: a French speaking lovesick philosopher, a wealthy gay esoteric Egyptian, a clear-eyed boy orphaned by a drone, a sharp Turkish-Italian gallerist, a charming pot smoking painter, and a beautiful but lost Parisian girl.
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