This Thing Called Love Sobh Alawiya
This Thing Called Love Sobh Alawiya A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death.Just before the outbreak of the…
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This Thing Called Love Sobh Alawiya
A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, the friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death.Just before the outbreak of the July 2006 war in Lebanon, a middle-aged woman named Nahla has gone missing. They reminisce about the better days of their youth, lifetimes of romantic turmoil, the trouble with love, and their inescapable confrontation with death. Distraught, besieged, and without any leads, Nahla's dearest friends--Suad, Azizeh, Hoda, Nadine, and the narrator Alawiya--band together to console one another.
Through searching discussions with Nahla's closest confidante Suad, tenacious investigation, Unsure whether Nahla has been killed in the fighting, fled the country, or disappeared into the oblivion of Alzheimer's, Alawiya pieces together Nahla's intimate past, simultaneously illuminating the jagged history of modern Lebanon.