A tear for the first death

The novel revolves around the tormented life of a Christian woman named "Jamila Ramzi Yaqoub" who finally lies down to give up her soul in one of Cairo‘s hospitals, while - before falling into her final coma - she calls for her daughter, from whom she was forcibly deprived, to see her before her death. Hind Abdul Karim Yaqout, a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Arts at the university, leaves her father‘s house—he resides in Kuwait for work—where she lives with her aunt, who raised her from childhood and instilled in her a hatred for her mother without explanation. Hind goes to visit her mother for the first time after learning she is alive, but she never sees her, as her mother falls into a coma before her arrival and is taken to a hospital owned by the father of one of Hind‘s friends. For several consecutive nights, Hind stays at her mother‘s house, reading her memoirs and life story, which forms the core of the novel. A strange and astonishing life unfolds before her: that of a vulnerable girl who suffered injustice throughout her life, including the unjust separation from her daughter Hind, through no fault of her own.