It is one of the best-selling novels in the Arab world since its publication in 1993. It tells the extraordinary love story between Khaled, an Algerian painter, and the daughter of Si El-Taher, one of the prominent leaders of the revolution who was his comrade and leader in the war for liberation. After knowing her as a child, Khaled, who lost a hand during the war and became a painter living in France, returns and meets the daughter of Si El-Taher, who has grown into a young woman and a writer. , , He sees in her the embodiment of all the meanings he yearns for: she is the daughter, the mother, the beloved, and a sense of home. The impossible love story they live becomes more complicated with the appearance of Ziyad, the Palestinian revolutionary poet. These three destinies intersect in their dramatic climax with the stories of post-Algerian independence: the warlords who became rich and the old revolutionaries who invested in its gains and benefited from its results, to take on titles. This is a nostalgic and poignant text that won the Naguib Mahfouz Award in 1997.
