Bittersweet

His good heart was shattered by the coup of the "Kizan", or the Brotherhood as the Sudanese call them, and their protégé and ideologue.. Damn them! What did they do to you, our beloved Sudan? How did they betray you and throw you into the depths of a pit of darkness and a swamp of never-ending violence? A wild religious obsession has spread across Sudan to the point that the common people and individuals have been led to believe that flogging a girl who was caught red-handed for the crime of wearing jeans in the street is a civilized victory for Islam. *** This novel attempts to explain what happened to brotherly Sudan, starting from the recent past to the living present, pointing to the future. Mysterious and confusing, through the character of Mahmoud, who is completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of London, and despite the cold weather, he warms up with an emotional relationship that ignites between him and a Sudanese girl, and in order to complete his message about the development of the political thought of the Brotherhood movement in Sudan, he flies to Khartoum to learn the truth about what he was exposed to. Sudan and the Sudanese, at the hands of a regime that jumped to power, cloaked in religious rags.

محمد مصطفى عرفي.. كاتب ومحاضر أكاديمي، حاصل على درجتي الماجستير والدكتوراه في القانون والعلوم السياسية من لندن. صدرت له روايات: الحب في لندن، ودموع ماتريوشكا، ووردة في حقل الصبار، وظلال الكولوسيوم.