The Frightened Ones: A novel (Unabridged) The Frightened Ones: A novel (Unabridged)

The Frightened Ones: A novel (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

**Finalist for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction**

A timely and haunting novel from an exciting new voice in international literature, set in present-day Syria

In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets a strange and reticent man named Naseem, and they soon begin a tense affair. But when Naseem, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he sends Suleima the unfinished manuscript of his novel. To Suleima's surprise, she and the novel's protagonist are uncannily similar. As she reads, Suleima's past overwhelms her and she has no idea what to trust--Naseem's pages, her own memory, or nothing at all?
Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman portrayed in Naseem's novel, The Frightened Ones is a boundary-blurring, radical examination of the effects of oppression on one's sense of identity, the effects of collective trauma, and a moving window into life inside Assad's Syria.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
MM
Mozhan Marnò
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
05:41
hr min
RELEASED
2020
August 25
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
352.3
MB