The Lebanese writer Amin Al-Rihani is considered one of the giants of thought, creativity, and social reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Arab world. He is a writer of many talents and talents. He wrote novels, essays, theater, biographies, travels, and criticism. He also composed poetry... and wrote in various fields such as economics, sociology, and history. He has He left our world in 1940 AD, leaving a great literary and intellectual legacy.
This novel, "The Lily of the Valley," is one of the first Arabic novels, which paved the way for the artistic rooting of the art of the Arabic novel, as it got rid of artistic construction, redundancy, or exaggerations in the narrative, as it came close to depicting reality and the intertwining of its events, as its events take place in several countries and cities in Nazareth, Tiberias, and Haifa. In Palestine, then Cairo, Paris, and Lebanon, and the fictional story embodies a human and social tragedy that could occur at any time and in any place.