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About the novel Flying Willow Roots
Flynn, the rebellious slave, was born in Khartoum during the Turkish era, shackled by the bondage he inherited from his parents, who were owned by the wealthy merchant Abu Al-Saud Agha. At the age of nine, his master's daughter, Khairiya, surprised him with a warm kiss. From his high balcony, his master watched the romantic scene and decided to teach his slave a lesson he would never forget. He suggested to Flynn's mother to prepare him for circumcision, so he castrated him. Flynn, the eunuch slave, grew up in his master's house, and with him the tragedy. He met Sebaneh, the beautiful slave girl, the illegitimate daughter of his master, Abu Al-Saud. A strong emotional relationship developed between them, like warm rain falling on a smooth rock. On their first date, ugliness was revealed, and spiritual love, which transcends the demands of the flesh, triumphed when Sebaneh held fast to her love for Flynn. Flynn decides to avenge his honor from those who caused his misery (his master Abu Al-Saud Agha, Hakim Pasha Mazhar Farhat, and Abdul-Khair, the slave owned by the Jewish merchant Isaac Levy). In a moment of true spiritual love, Sesbanah inspires him to join the Mahdi's armies besieging Khartoum. With Sesbanah's help, Flynn manages to escape from Khartoum and joins the rebel armies. There, he meets Sheikh Musa Abu Hajl, who refines his soul. Chance brings him together with his first prey, Abdul-Khair, only to discover that he was also a victim of the whims of his master, the perverted Jewish merchant. Flynn enters Khartoum with the rebels and settles part of the debt owed to Hakim Pasha Mazhar Farhat in the hospital, where he meets his friend Marjan, who has been falsely accused of assassinating General Gordon. However, he fails to reach his love Sesbanah and his arch-rival, his master Abu Al-Saud, who flees to the city of Berber in northern Sudan. Flynn decides to join Emir Abdel Rahman Al-Nujumi's brigade heading north to pursue Gordon's rescue expedition, which has reached the outskirts of Berber. Sesbanah is captured and is taken captive by the Emir's lieutenant. She moves to live with him in Omdurman, where she gives birth to a son, whom she names Flynn out of love. Chance finds Flynn at that very moment and in that very place. After settling his debt with Abu Saud, from among the willow bushes, Flynn clearly witnesses the tragic scene. The wooden boat is a blazing mass of flames. Burnt bodies float on the deck. A group of British soldiers board, welcomed by the child with two forefingers pointed at their chests. Immortal phrases ("Boom... boom. Die... die") pierce their hearts like bullets. Flynn watches them pull the child from the burning rubble. The glances exchanged between Flynn and the child through the thick smoke were like stray arrows exchanged between lovers, piercing their hearts, exploding a ball full of sincere emotional feelings. A magnetic aura of attractive sensations and emotions fixed deep within the human psyche, the pegs of human relationships. Flynn fell unconscious from the force of the explosion, while the English steamer swayed north with the little child on board. That scene remained stuck in Flynn's mind, just as those words remained engraved on the wall of the mind of the little child, Mustafa Wad Barbar (James Francis), like an indelible tattoo of a Negro tribe.