{"id":7993,"date":"2023-12-16T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=7993"},"modified":"2023-12-16T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T10:50:23","slug":"the-drowning-book-overview-by-hammour-ziada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/the-drowning-book-overview-by-hammour-ziada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drowning :Book overview: by Hammour Ziada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Khartoum &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An intelligent and compelling novel that lifts a corner of the veil that covers the misery of so many women\u2019s lives<br \/>\nSudan, 1968, the military coup taking place in Khartoum echoes all the way to the small rural town of Hajer Narti, where the body of a young girl has just been found in the Nile.<br \/>\nLike every time a body is washed up on the shore, Fatima shows up, According to popular belief, when the Nile brings a new body back, it also brings back an old one. Fatima is still looking for her daughter no Su&#8217;ad, believed to have drowned many years ago.<br \/>\nThe Drowning\u00a0is Hammour Ziada\u2019s third novel. With scarce descriptions, and just the minimal amount of words, Ziada succeeds in portraying very convincing characters, and in poignantly capturing the violence of social relations in a strictly codified society.<br \/>\nOnly 13 year-old Abeer eludes the reader. Like a dream all men try to catch throughout the novel, Abeer floats silently across town, a fluttering butterfly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum &#8211; Sudan Events An intelligent and compelling novel that lifts a corner of the veil that covers the misery of so many women\u2019s lives Sudan, 1968, the military coup taking place in Khartoum echoes all the way to the small rural town of Hajer Narti, where the body of a young girl has just &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7993\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}