The Sun of Faith | Author: Sammy Samir
The sun of faith is a philosophic testimonial book written out of a need to commemorate the death of the author’s son on the day of his delivery. Expressed through contemplative prose and poetry, accompanied with letters written by friends and family responding a letter the author wrote to them from the hospital room a day after the shocking loss. In the letter he is asking their friends to detain their need to visit them and grant him and his wife seven days of grieving in peace as his Arab tradition assigns.
The Sun Of Faith maintains a dramatic structure that deals with the question of identity and the revitalization of faith, losing a loved person to death and the different ways of dealing with it. It reveals the different, sometimes controversial, social and cultural manners of reacting, thinking, and behaving in the face of tremendous unexpected changes that could not only split us apart and alienate us from one another, but that could end up being worse than death itself.
Weaved with delicacy, the letter is the starting point that led the author to write the book. Each contemplation brings forth an insight that leads to a poem. Each poem is answered by a letter. Every fragment constitutes a certain phase, another obstacle that needs to be overcome. An intense and invigorating testimony a of a grieving heart living in a society filled with strange customs, who by the end of it gives hope to any reader.