All That I Want to Forget

A courageous young woman from the Gulf must overcome conservatism and oppression from her own family to live and love as she chooses

Fatima loves poetry and wants to study French literature--both of which are anathema to her strict and conservative much older brother, Saqr. While living under his roof, Fatima's hopes and dreams are scrutinized, mocked, and slowly crushed as she is forced into his narrow vision of the right path.

Then Fatima meets Isam, a poet like her; they email love letters to each other and meet in secret. Saqr, however, has other ideas: she is married off to Faris, a complete stranger. He is not the cruel tyrant her brother was, but still she did not choose him.

Will she escape her past to live the life of love and poetry she craves?

Author: Bothayna Al-Essa
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hoopoe
Published: 03/05/2019
Series: Hoopoe Fiction
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9789774169083

About the Author
Bothayna Al-Essa is a bestselling and award-winning Kuwaiti author. She has published nine novels, as well as collections of essays, children's books, and translations from English into Arabic. She lives in Kuwait.

Michele Henjum is a translator with an MA in comparative literature. She lives in Cairo.