The widow writes letters secretly.

Author's name: Tariq Imam

"Suddenly, there are successive soft knocks on the door, behind which is a girl. How did she sneak out of her house at dawn? How did she cross the muddy streets and reach this door in clean shoes? It's love. The widow asks herself and answers. The girl lies down on the nearest chair. Her hair hides her forehead, and she cries. Which girl is that? The widow asks herself and doesn't answer. Lovers are many, but the pain of love is the same..." The widow "Malak" returns to her small town after being retired, only to be surprised one night by a letter that miraculously shatters the glass of her bedroom window. She opens the strange letter, but finds its words erased, and so begins a journey of investigation in search of the unknown lover who remembers her after all these years. This is a novel whose hero is “love”: lost love, and awaited love. Between them stands an elderly woman in mourning, using her profession as an Arabic teacher as a cover for another, secret profession: writing love letters to young women in the prime of love on behalf of their trembling hands. Through it, she rediscovers her aborted self, her oppressive city, and her entire existence, which becomes a mirror of one’s aging. “The Widow Writes Letters in Secret”: A Woman’s Novel: She Questions Her Place in a World That Denies Both Her Voice and Her Image, Creating a Different Narrative in Which Reality Blends with Fantasy, Narrated by the Hand of Poetry