Two Iraqis, a woman and a man, searching for love amid war and siege.
Dictatorship, occupation, and diaspora. “It is a love novel that calls for love in times that marginalize love, so its author dedicates it to all those who have been deprived of their love due to circumstances. The Wolf of Love and Books is a cultured novel about cultured people, granting pleasure and knowledge to a reader skilled at listening to the revelations of the inner self and its outpourings. It is a profound exploration of the hidden and the repressed. It explores emotions, beauty, and human hope amidst pain and devastation. Written in a language, style, and technique different from what we are used to from Mohsen Al-Ramli in his previous works, as he blends some of his autobiography with fiction, embodying the voice of a woman, and delving deeper into the innermost feelings of his characters after describing the harsh events and difficult transformations that his country went through in his previous novels that have been translated into more than one language: (The President’s Gardens), (Dates of Fingers), and (The Scattered Crumbs).