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One of the best novels I read for the author. Wardah would never leave my heart and mind. Wardah was a revolutionary woman from Oman (Thafar). She scarified many of her feminine needs and feelings, and even weaknesses cause of her principles. Unfortunately Wardah started to doubt these principle she fought for in the end. The main character Knew wardah from her time of study in Egypt with her brother. In the book he read her day book or memo he got from her daughter. In the book, Wardah was describing many things, her feelings being like a soldier with other men and women uniting in the mountain against the Sultan (in 1960s-70s). Of course, I was not aware of this revolution which was terminated at that time. I guess, our history books as usual were fabricated highly that I was not aware of this event til I read this book. We dont know what happened to wardah who was pregnant with her child, without marriage, and who was escaping in the desert when their revolution was sabotaged . All what we know, that she left a daughter behind her, and the ironic thing is that this daughter was completely veiled. The main character was really angry , I guess, on the behalf of his Wardah, and what she stood for. He was shouting that he does not like to speak to a person without having eye contact, some thing he could not get with the girl behind the veil. The daughter was the contrast of her mother. It is sad if Wardah come back to life and see how the image of women became the opposite of she was fighting for. The author spoke about the background of many revolutions and a lot of political activities occurring at that time in the Gulf states. This means to me, as a special stage in this region that is getting ignored and may be forgotten. The rulers do their best to erase every thing that put doubts on their strength and legitimacy. While reading, I felt the that the author was so much in love with Wardah, or may be he was obsessed with her. For him she was a rose that was killed too early and too aggressively, not only by the government, but mainly by the ugly mentality of her people. San3 Allah Ebraheem is a magnificent author, and in this novel, he was top. I highly recommend this novel, and especially to the people of Arabia.