Poetic and very much the Arabic style of writing ( it is after all a translation of an original Algerian novel).


I think reading the book as an English reader it does come off long winded, full of cheese and ‘omg Khaled can we see some action and get to the point now my friend’ 😂 .

Knowing some of how the Arabic language works and reading it from that point of view I thought this was really a sweet book.

I think love in the Arab culture takes time to grow and nurture. To put into words all the excitement, the metaphors and the feeeeelllls (as I like to call it) has had to take on many descriptions and comparisons.

All together - I liked it and I may have had no choice but to read it as it’s the only book I took on holiday 😝 💕


Beautiful book anyway- really makes me miss reading Arabic.