中文概要:
英文简介: This novel tells the story of a woman, Hanadi, born with phenomenal beauty, but stricken in adolescence by acromegaly - or
gigantism transforms into a monster, and is rejected by her mother, who has never accepted the loss, two years earlier, of her eldest child, the beautiful baby Hind. The mother, who regularly reshapes and reinvents her life, hides "the mutant" Hanadi in the attic of her kitchen, from the moment the phenomenal resemblance between the two little ones is no longer possible. The image blurs between the late Hind and her hideous mirror, for both mother and daughter…The teenager, alone, feeds herself with books and other publications from the random boxes and crates piled up in the attic, before fleeing from a city plagued by the stench of a civil war (which never ends) to France. As she wanders between Paris (and its suburbs) and Beirut (a working-class district), between love and the illnesses of love, the novel, constructed like a puzzle, opens with Hanadi’s return to her country, where she revisits her relationship with her mother, who died of Alzheimer’s, as well as the daily life of her city, transformed and disfigured like herself, and lost between a legendary past and a deformed present (like other Mediterranean cities)
The novel tells "its stories" only through the destinies of individuals, of modest background, who suffer, alone and unprepared, the blows of History without understanding its tenets (like the destiny of the absent father), in the blinding fog of oblivion, denial and violence…In cities also sick with gigantism...
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