Letter 29

Summary of the novel "My 29th Letter" by Hana Al-Awad

Every departing voice has a returning echo, and every beauty has a crown.
So what Taj is experiencing is nothing but a reaction to Jamal's actions in his life.
Although what unites them is nothing more than a tragic accident in which he lost a finger, and she lost her future.
There is a vast distance between them, filled with disappointments and pitfalls of regret.
And insulating walls of myths that built their solid concrete on the foundations of a society with ready-made rules.
An eclipse is nothing but a divine wrath, a punishment and a warning from God, and all cosmic and even political events are nothing but the beginning of the end of the world.
The Euphrates breezes drenched Taj's rosy dreams until they drowned and suffocated her, and when she gasped, refusing death, they banished her far away and forever to London.
It became the twenty-ninth letter of her writer husband, Wissam, whose depression ended in suicide.
It is the curse that haunted Jamal until it blinded him.
It is Rashid's ready and beautiful revenge on Wissam. Rashid is the owner of the publishing house and Wissam's friend who fell into the trap of her charm before thinking of killing her.
This is the goal, the intended purpose, and the perfect journalistic scoop for Alaa Ibn Jamal. Then it soon turned into a race with himself and his age to catch up with her heart.
A novel about a woman emerging from societies whose laws, customs and judiciary are not regulated.
The events take place in 2017 between London, Paris, and the stricken Syrian city of Raqqa.
The novel is divided into a number of voices and echoes:
• Each voice represents the life of the hero (Jamal), a former teaching assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University, and a brilliant film director, who lives in Paris with his son, Alaa.