Hearts in Rural Yemen

The novel images in words a true story in

reality. It talks about a tragicomedy story

of a Yemeni boy and a girl in one of the

rural villages in Yemen. It draws several

points of views and perspectives in the

terms of love in the vision of the Yemeni

people and society.

The novel not only depicts the story of the

two lovers and their sufferings and at the

end their failure to get married but also

describes and explains some certain

Yemeni traditions, mores, customs,

principles in addition to the way the

people live, behave and deal with events

of various types and with people around

them.

In conclusion, the entire book is a real

picture-gallery of different occasions and

dichotomous situations. What is more, the 

book aims at praising and encouraging

some tenets and values in the rural areas

of Yemen, and at once criticizing against

oppression with all its types, patriarchy,

skepticism, overgeneralization, weapons,

murders, revenge, and forced marriage.