The Cairo Snow (Novel)

In her novel “The Cairo Snow,” Abdelrahman tells us the story of a woman, or rather two women, or better yet, the story of three women: Suleiman, Nourjahan, and Bushra. Three women living within the body of one woman. They are three, yet they are all one. One woman living in the present with two pasts residing within her, three lives in one present, struggling under the weight of scenes retrieved from her spiritual memory.

In addition to the philosophical depth of the novel’s style and references to ancient Indian and Eastern civilizations with their beliefs and ideas, as well as the repeated mention of Islamic Sufi figures, the title of the novel itself remains a puzzling mystery that is difficult to unravel. It adds to the metaphysical vision that distinguishes this novel.

In “The Cairo Snow,” we come to know incomplete stories of three women, each complementing the story of the other, seeking revenge on her behalf, and inheriting her skills in art and writing, that is, in culture, just as they inherit the anxiety of unfulfilled desire and the unresolved issue.”

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