- Published: 16 June 2021
- ISBN: 9781784707996
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $24.00
The Frightened Ones
- Published: 16 June 2021
- ISBN: 9781784707996
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256
- RRP: $24.00
‘THE FRIGHTENED ONES eloquently locates the crux of the Syrian experience, during a time of brutal repression. In this brilliant novel, Dima Wannous tells us the story of the revolution through the voices of two women . . . With its economy of language, this captivating novel leaves us astounded by the ability of literature to create beauty amidst pain.’
Elias Khoury
'A complex tale of revolution, displacement, delusional love . . . most memorable in surreal details and glancing tales. The analyst Kamil emerges as the novel’s quiet hero – strangely reminiscent of Dr Rieux in Camus’s The Plague'
Maya Jaggi, Guardian
The nerve-stretching tension and horror of life in Assad’s Syria is conveyed in this cunningly constructed novel… [The Frightened Ones] shortlisted for the Arabic International Prize for Literature, examines how fear strangles lives. It’s brutal and unsettling
David Mills, Sunday Times
A brilliant and terrifying split-personality novel... The novel is full of vivid and terrifying descriptions of the effects of fear
Al Fanar