Sign her book in "Sharjah Book"
Al-Khoury interviews her late mother on “The Day Laila slept”
The writer reviews a painful stage she experienced when her mother was diagnosed with cancer.
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Writer Ghada Al-Khoury is signing her book "The Day Layla Slept", issued by Al Ahlia for Publishing and Distribution - Amman, as part of the Sharjah International Book Fair next month.
Through her author, the writer reviews a painful stage she experienced when her mother, Laila, was diagnosed with cancer, and she slept for four weeks before her death in 2019. Al-Khoury details this painful journey between Laila's sleep and her last absence, restoring childhood and adolescence memories.
The book also deals with other personalities who left their impact on the life of the writer and her mother, and the one-sided dialogue from the daughter to the absent mother is a method adopted by the writer to tell her mother what happened after her death of events, such as the spread of the “Covid-19” virus, and the explosion of the port of Beirut last year.
The following dialogue highlights some chapters of the book that Al-Khoury will soon sign at the 2021 Sharjah International Book Fair.
The writer says: "My grief at the departure of my mother, Laila, was the spark that incited me to write so that I could overcome her absence and resist forgetting her, but I found myself reclaiming her life and my memories with her, and unconsciously the past rose from its slumber, and I began narrating the biography of characters I lived through in my childhood and adolescence and printed my character."
And she continues: "This does not mean that the book is melancholy. On the contrary, I think that it is a celebration of true joy, and an attempt to restore our relationship not with death, which there is no point in denying, but with life itself."
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