Love and Silence

This novel is the only flash left by Egyptian writer Enayat El-Zayat before life snatched her away in the prime of her youth. A narrative overflowing with sensitivity and a deep human wound, written as if it were a long confession of a soul seeking shelter between love and fear, between the desire to set out and the restrictions that bind it. Through the heroine's voice, we sense the fragility of a woman who tries to hide behind faded colors, and then finally dares to choose a color that proves her existence to the world. We see how a fleeting touch of tenderness can turn into a deed of freedom, how love becomes a promise of salvation, and then suddenly turns into isolation harsher than silence. The language of the novel pulsates with poetry.A Nile swirling between the banks, a sunset covering the sky with sadness, stray birds and transparent clouds, all of which turn into metaphors for a soul oscillating between dreaming and extinction. Within it we glimpse disappointment, universal unity, and a struggle with despair from which the writer finds no escape except through words. Al-Zayat wrote her first novel as if she had written her literary will, a testimony to a time that did not do her justice, and a cry of love that did not find an echo. "Love and Silence" is an immortal human impact, and a painful memory of a writer who dreamed of creating something great, so she immortalized her name in one book.