The Abandoned Garden

By Abdel Hamid Attia

Description

Widad Al-Khalidi, a 33-year-old botanist, is commissioned by her university to survey an abandoned garden on the edge of the city — and finds it blooming outside all its seasons, though no one has tended it for thirty years. Beneath a huge red rosebush, she finds the bag of her missing colleague Rabab Al-Dali, and discovers that the rose she picked was Rabab, and that every plant in the garden bears the name of a person it preserved. A seed journal and an old photograph reveal that the garden belonged to her grandmother, that a small tree bearing her name was planted on the day she was born, and that the garden waits for its heiress to choose: to leave and never return, or to remain as its new keeper. And when Widad chooses to remain and turns into a tree, her friend Maha Al-Jabali finds herself facing the same invitation.

Details

• Category: E-books & Written Content → Mystery & Thriller

• Price: $2

• Language: English

• Chapters: 10 chapters

Hook

An abandoned garden, untended for thirty years, still blooms out of season — and its plants bear the names of the missing. The latest name is Widad's.