โ Cross, Amy
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ English
โ 116 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Dust of Promises
โ Scribed by Ahlem Mosteghanemi
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2016;2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 162 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In a voice as dim as a lighthouse on a rainy night, he said, "Beware of loving a woman who loves bridges.โ ?'
Once upon a September in Paris...
Still heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring, elusive novelist Hayat, the narrator of The Dust of Promises finds himself adrift in Paris, where he has come to receive a photography award.
His photograph of a traumatised war-orphan has been declared profoundly affecting by the judges, but he knows that no picture can ever fully capture the desolation and destruction he has witnessed in his Algerian homeland.
When he stumbles into an art exhibition on one of the capital's side streets, he is struck by the power of the paintings and feels impelled to learn more about the artist - an Algerian exile whose painful longing for the country he has lost shines out of his work.
The artist is none other than Khaled, the man who haunted the pages of...
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