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The Seed of New Life: Desert's life

The Seed of New Life: Desert's life

Tykkyläinen, Elise

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 9523183176
ISBN13: 9789523183179
Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand
Published: Feb 3 2016
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This is a fascinating autobiographical story about a Finnish woman's life in Egypt where she got pregnant and gave birth to a new life with a Bedouin man. The author says Finland and Egypt are like night and day. There is nothing similar with them. The village was called Arab Abou Tamma. If I understood it right, all the people in the village were in some way related to each other. I often wondered what made them live so close together. Was it fear? What would they have been afraid of, in a small village, surrounded by flowering gardens and where farmers tilled their land along the Nile? Women washed their laundry at the fork of the Nile, which also served as a dump. Strange crustaceans and whatever living things from the river would move around at that little fork of the river. Everything was dirty and full of sand. I was a freak for them. No one understood why I was staying in that village, and I did not understand it myself either. I could not go anywhere by myself, even though I was longing for loneliness or to just go out for a walk. I lived in the same house with my husband's family, symbolically saying, chained, and no one understood me. I was deeply depressed and withered inside, but I did not know where else to go.

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