We follow twins, Rasheed and Rasheeda in post WW2 Palestine in this story. Loved wholly and completely by their father they each get the best education money can buy and while Rasheed is at university he meets a priest that changes everything for him in the world of sexual behavior. He takes these teachings from the priest, whom read them form the prophet Mohammed, and uses them to when he finds his one true love Natalia, a Polish Jew/Catholic that is there to help Palestine become a socialist but independent country from Isreal. When she is lost to him because of politics, she sends their son Omar to live with his father and Rasheed is both elated and saddened. Happy to be a father but devastated to lose his love. Rasheeda marries an English officer and lives in England where she is able to study even more and finds a suitable match for her nephew in Christina. This tale is a sometimes messy family affair but can they all achieve happily evert after in the time of political and territorial dispute?
I'll say I wasn't expecting the sexual part of this book to be so prominent and so much at the forefront. While I mostly enjoyed the story, it was sometimes difficult to follow what exactly was happening and the sex just seemed a little out of place occasionally.
I'll say I wasn't expecting the sexual part of this book to be so prominent and so much at the forefront. While I mostly enjoyed the story, it was sometimes difficult to follow what exactly was happening and the sex just seemed a little out of place occasionally.