By Sara Zantout
Until I Held You Once more is a strong and expressive brief story told in ten effective heartbeats. This story follows a mother’s passionate travel through adore and loss, revealing how parenthood is formed, tried, and re-imagined through minutes of profound powerlessness in a contradiction-filled city of Beirut where magnificence and melancholy coexist.
Written by Lebanese creator Sara Zantout, this idyllic brief story offers an insinuate reflection on what it implies to be a woman exploring individual and social memory in a city that mirrors both qualities and distress.
Themes Explored
- Motherhood as transformation and endurance
- Memory’s fragility and power
- Identity shaped by emotional upheaval
- Beirut’s fractured beauty: a living metaphor
Purpose of the Book
To investigate how parenthood, memory, and personality are formed by passionate complexity, especially in a Central Eastern setting. It pays tribute to ladies who hold themselves together in the midst of inconsistencies, celebrating both calm quality and vulnerability.
To investigate how parenthood, memory, and character are molded in the passionate scene of the Middle East. A tribute to ladies who hold themselves together in broken universes where calm quality, helplessness, and cherish ended up acts of control.
Why You Should Read It
Perfect for readers who appreciate:
- Middle Eastern women’s fiction
- Stories of motherhood and memory
- Emotional fiction of resilience and hope
- Poetic, literary reflections on love, identity, and strength
About the Author: Sara Zantout
Sara Zantout is a Lebanese writer and journalist based in Dubai. Drawing on extensive experience in writing and storytelling, she brings emotional depth and lyrical style to her literary work, Until I Held You Again.
What Makes This Book Special
- Authentic Middle Eastern female perspective
- Ten heartbeats of raw emotional narrative
- Compact, poetic short-story format
- Beirut’s vibrant, conflicted culture
- Nuanced portrayal of motherhood and identity
Perfect For Fans Of
- Elif Shafak
- Hala Alyan
- Nawal El Saadawi
- Ghada Al Saman
Contemporary Arab Women’s Literature
Bold, lyrical stories of passion, identity, and Middle Eastern womanhood.
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