Sumaya Abdulkader

A novel that relates the stories of seven women and a female child who have to contend with the hardships and agonies of war. They are of different ages, backgrounds, parts of the country and circumstances. Even the nature of their personal tragedies vary. But they share the fact that women’s suffering in Yemen has long been something hidden and not to be spoken of. Then the war broke out and these women’s pains and sorrows erupted into the open as their loved ones were claimed by the grave, the prison, the rubble and all the destruction that consumed people’s homes, children and dreams. As a Yemeni writer, Somaya believes that such pains should not be forgotten and, therefore, that they should be immortalized in writing.