Does one need a map to get lost?
Are there maps for getting lost?
In the circumambulation area, the life of a Kuwaiti family changes and the course of their Hajj journey changes, becoming a journey in search of their lost child.
The novel tells stories of kidnapping and smuggling, stories of begging and class injustice, and sheds light on human trafficking gangs.
From Mecca to Asir to Sinai, human caravans are heading towards their death. Will this seven-year-old boy survive? How did he live during these days? Was his resistance against injustice successful, or did he surrender?
Narrate The novel covers the events of twenty-two days after the child was lost, and it deals with each character separately to explain how they dealt with this event, how the mother was patient and persevered, how the father was lost in another maze, how the uncle carried the torch of hope until the last page, and what were the results of this incident on the family and personal levels, and how each of them entered a maze unlike the other.
A novel full of feelings of motherhood, anticipation, suspense, sadness, tears, and prayers for a very satisfying ending for a reader who knows that reality is uglier than ideal endings resembling children's stories.
In every novel, Buthaina insists on opening an unhealed wound in our hearts, and directing the compass of thought and feelings in a new direction unknown to the reader. She leaves him in a realistic confrontation with the dark side of life.
At the end of the novel, you will realize that each of us has a map that he gets lost on and wanders off from, and perhaps life as a whole is a maze and we only need a plan and an individual map to cross this maze safely.
Written by Batoul Watfa
Written by Batoul Watfa
