Samir, a writer living in Paris, tries to write his experience of two overlapping love affairs. However, caught between the memory of two women, conversations held in French and in Arabic, his life as a writer and as a flaneur, and his exile in France, and his origins in a country that he has never seen – Palestine – he finds himself straddling fiction and reality, no longer able to differentiate between the two. The more he repeats and reinvents the stories of the two women, the more weighed down in mundane and vulgar details they become. Occasionally mention of Palestine rises to the surface, only for Samir to insist that this is not what he is writing about. The importance of this novel lies not in the events of the narrative, but rather in its challenging exposition of a way of remembering.

Approximate number of pages: 206 p.

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