Author's Introduction "I met Nada, the hero of the novel on the pages of an online forum. She told her story that made me cry. I left the forum, but the story did not leave me. After a while, the idea of the novel had grown in my mind. I found me calling her and asking her for more details. For a long time, I was introduced to the closed Jewish community, or what they call “Arab Jews.” But I learned things that had never crossed my mind,
Rima grew up in the arms of the Jewish Jacob family, and they consider her one of them. It was the joy and vibrant spirit of the home in which the elderly parents and their son Jacob resided, after their eldest daughter married and traveled with her husband to Lebanon. Jacob was the most attached to her and her love. He was a young man of twenty-two years old when five-year-old Rima entered his life. He spent most of his time with her. He plays with her and plays with her, reads stories and tales to her, enjoys her innocent emotions and spontaneous laughter, buys her toys and gifts, and takes advantage of the holidays to travel with her... Her mother was reassuring her in his arms, and she was happy to give her the tenderness of a father that she misses.
Rima grew up in the arms of the Jewish Jacob family, and they consider her one of them. It was the joy and vibrant spirit of the home in which the elderly parents and their son Jacob resided, after their eldest daughter married and traveled with her husband to Lebanon. Jacob was the most attached to her and her love. He was a young man of twenty-two years old when five-year-old Rima entered his life. He spent most of his time with her. He plays with her and plays with her, reads stories and tales to her, enjoys her innocent emotions and spontaneous laughter, buys her toys and gifts, and takes advantage of the holidays to travel with her... Her mother was reassuring her in his arms, and she was happy to give her the tenderness of a father that she misses.
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