Chaos of the Senses - Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Section: Arabic novels , romance

Number of pages: 383 pages

Publisher: Novel Foundation

The second part of the trilogy by writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, after “Memory in the Flesh”. The author, the heroine of the novel, seeks to write a new book. She meets a journalist and a love story develops between the two. Then the writer discovers that her lover is obsessed with “Khaled Ben Tobbal”, the hero of her first novel, the painter who lost an arm in the war of liberation, and signs his articles with his name. She borrows a book from his library, and is amazed by the marginal notes written by the reader in his handwriting next to the original text.