Sarah''s sin

It is the story of a young woman from a wealthy Saudi family living in Dhahran. Since her childhood, she had to live in conflict with her fanatical uncle. Because of her constant rebellion, she was expelled from school as a student. Due to her father''s connections, who works as a food and logistical contractor for the Aramco oil company and the American base in Dhahran, she finds a place for herself in a co-ed school affiliated with the American base. Despite this, the uncle, who feared that the rebellious girl would harm his honor and reputation as a well-known sheikh throughout the country, did not stop his attempts to subject her to his authority. When she falls in love with the son of a simple and humble tailor, the uncle will not know any pity or mercy. A woman had previously eloped from the family with a craftsman and brought shame upon her. It can''t happen again. The marriage that the uncle had planned for his son Nasser, who was studying at Manama University in Bahrain, ends in a major scandal that forces the young couple to flee to London. Since then, the girl has been in a race against time: she knows what awaits her if she returns to Saudi Arabia. In this novel that talks about friendship, love, betrayal, and guilt, and which takes place between Dhahran and London, the writer tells the story of a young girl who knows no fear, and defends herself by all means. She is searching for salvation. The novel in which the boundaries between good and evil overlap, and which is also a story of love that knows no boundaries, is ultimately these two: on the one hand, it is a breathtaking drama of a struggling woman, and on the other hand, it is a literary work that establishes a new style in modern literature. . A novel that fulfills its own concept of narrative: it tells the story of the life and love of a wild girl in an attractive and entertaining way, as if the reader finds himself there in the narrative from the moment of her birth until her decision to end the sin that shattered her life. The language of the novel is a mixture of simplicity and poetry, of comedy and tragedy, a language full of sympathy that was not devoid of black sarcasm, often on the part of the narrator with his characters. After six novels and three years since the publication of his last book, Baghdad, the Biography of a City, here is the star of a ruler who rises upon us to surprise us with a new novel. (Seventh) in which, as usual, he breaks many coffins. The novel, whose German translation is published in parallel with its Arabic publication, is after the novel Baghdad Marlboro (2008), the writer''s second edition published by Dar Al-Rafidain.