![]() ![]() ![]() For years, Noura holds on to her sister’s suicide note, finally breaking the family’s silence and writing about her death in a London-based magazine. ![]() Years before, in Syria, her sister took her own life while pregnant with his child. It's the summer of 1978, Noura is being hunted by her sister's former boyfriend. In it, the infant Karim is separated from his mother in the opening chapter, when Noura is harassed then murdered. Just such a lost baby haunts Iman Humaydan's The Weight of Paradise, now translated by Michelle Hartman. These children – like Maroun in Rabee Jaber's Confessions and Khaldun/Dov in Ghassan Kanafani's Returning to Haifa – somehow slip or are stolen from their parents' embrace, to be raised by families of a different nationality or sect. Lost children haunt the literature of the Levant. ![]()
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