The Frightened Ones (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780525655138)

**Finalist for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction**

A timely and haunting novel from an exciting new voice in international literature, set in present-day Syria

In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets a strange and reticent man named Naseem, and they soon begin a tense affair. But when Naseem, a writer, flees Syria for Germany, he sends Suleima the unfinished manuscript of his novel. To Suleima's surprise, she and the novel's protagonist are uncannily similar. As she reads, Suleima's past overwhelms her and she has no idea what to trust--Naseem's pages, her own memory, or nothing at all?
Narrated in alternating chapters by Suleima and the mysterious woman portrayed in Naseem's novel, The Frightened Ones is a boundary-blurring, radical examination of the effects of oppression on one's sense of identity, the effects of collective trauma, and a moving window into life inside Assad's Syria.

Author: Dima Wannous
ISBN-10: 0525655131
ISBN-13: 9780525655138
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 06/15/2020
Library Journal 07/01/2020 pg. 54