The Dark Side of Love
by Rafik Schami
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A dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul’s Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer—and he was murdered. But when Detective Barudi sets out to interrogate the man’s mysterious widow, the Secret Service takes the case away from him. Barudi continues to investigate clandestinely and discovers the murderer’s motive: it is a blood feud between the Mushtak and Shahin clans, reaching back to the beginnings of the 20th century. And, linked to it, a love story that can have no happy ending, for reconciliation has no place within the old tribal structures.
Rafik Schami’s dazzling novel spans a century of Syrian history in which politics and religions continue to torment an entire people. Simultaneously, his poetic stories from three generations tell of the courage of lovers who risk death sooner than deny their passions. He has also written a heartfelt tribute to his hometown Damascus and a great and moving hymn to the power of love.
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The Dark Side of Love
2009, Interlink Books
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Die dunkle Seite der Liebe
2006, dtv
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Über dem Tor der Pauluskapelle in Damaskus hängt eines Morgens ein Toter. Bei dem Ermordeten handelt es sich um einen muslimischen Offizier. Als Kommissar Barudi die Witwe verhören will, wird ihm der Fall vom Geheimdienst entzogen. Heimlich recherchiert er weiter und findet das Tatmotiv: eine Blutfehde zwischen den Clans der Muschtaks und der Schahins. In vielerlei Facetten schildert Schami den eskalierenden Wahnsinn von Hass und Gewalt und die akute Bedrohung für den, der sich dem Diktat der Sippe nicht beugt. Zugleich erzählt er in poetischen Geschichten von einer Liebe, die eigentlich nicht sein darf, weil Versöhnung nicht vorkommt in den alten Familienstrukturen, und vom Mut der Liebenden, denen der Tod droht und die dennoch die Unterdrückung ihrer Leidenschaft nicht zulassen wollen.
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