Laline

About this book

Over seven days, a married woman encounters an attachment so overwhelming that it unsettles every boundary by which she has understood duty, family, faith, and desire. The setting reaches toward Lalesh, the sacred Yazidi sanctuary in Kurdistan, where spiritual tradition and forbidden longing become inseparable from the characters' choices. Laline's passion is neither presented as a simple romance nor excused from its consequences. Hallucination, secrecy, and cultural difference intensify a story about the dangerous wish to be remade through another person. Wajiha Laline asks what remains when love becomes a total claim on identity and sacrifice no longer guarantees redemption.