![]() ![]() ![]() "Your brother will shoot you between the eyes." This isn't hyperbole. "You smeared our name with tar," her mother snarls after discovering that Salma is pregnant. As an adolescent, Salma falls in love with Hamdan (more precisely, with the image of Hamdan: "a reflection of a dark face, white teeth and dark curly hair covered with a chequered red-and-white headdress"), and that's when her troubles begin. The threat of an honor killing catalyzes "The Cry of the Dove," an unsettling and harrowing novel by Fadia Faqir, a Jordanian now living in England and the author of two other books, "Nisanit" and "Pillars of Salt."Īlready published in England under the title "My Name Is Salma," "The Cry of the Dove" flits between the contemporary life of Sally Asher, living in Exeter, England, and her backstory as Salma, a Hima Bedouin living in a remote part of the Levant. ![]() The grotesque term "honor killing" refers to the murder of a girl or woman by one of her relatives, or by someone in her tribe or community, for an extramarital or premarital affair even victims of rape are murdered in a deeply rooted custom intended to rid the family and the community of shame. ![]()
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