Abstract:Rā'iḥat al-qirfa by Samar Yazbek is not only a love story between a Damascene bourgeois woman, Ḥanān-l-Hāšimī, and her maid, ‘Alyā, bought from a destitute family from Syria’s slums. The female author also denounces violence against children, ‘Alyā being a violated minor whose lack of consent is reinforced by the physical and psychological violence she suffers. She creates an identity between renunciation and revenge against life.
