Four Ladies

From Middle Eastern storyteller, Hussin Alkheder, comes the FOUR LADIES a collection of short stories influenced by the four major cities he's lived in: Damascus, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, and Shanghai. These four grand ladies have played important roles in his life journey.

In the Four Ladies*,* we find three stories based in Damascus, the cradle of history: Hand Made Crutches makes us feel the suffering of a mother with four daughters and a disabled son; The Green Bus gives a glimpse of Damascus both before and after the war; Love in the Time of Corona portrays the way some Syrians deal with the virus.

Next, Hussin is our tour guide in the luxurious city of Dubai: Baking Bread, is a murder mystery; Lucky Ending tells how a Syrian tourist in Dubai is reminded of his house when he sees the fantastic buildings; and Hamama is a sad story about a road-killed pigeon.

From there we fly to the enchanting city of Kuala Lumpur: Akev takes place in one of the modern buildings of Kuala Lumpur opposite the twin towers; The Power of Words tells of a conversation between the words on the page when they interrupt their author's writing; in Bedtime Story we learn of a father who lacked parental love.

The last three stories come from the mega city of Shanghai, with its miraculous system: The Writer takes us into the future to meet a construction tycoon who dreams of being a writer; The Cure introduces us to a spiritual man who spent ten years feeding stray cats on the streets of Shanghai; and finally, On the Metro deals with a passenger who thinks he sees evidence of a murder on a passenger's smartphone.

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