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Heart warming story set in Kosovo and Canada

27th January 2023

Gazala: A Hopeful Tale From a War-Torn World by Suman Siwach, heart warming story set in Kosovo and Canada.

Heart warming story set in Kosovo and Canada

Gazala: A Hopeful Tale from a War-Torn World is a beautifully crafted and sensitive work. It tells how one can fight through tribulations to reach a place of peace. Gazala is an Indian who moves to Canada after her marriage to a Canadian. All is seemingly going well. She gives birth to a daughter, but soon the situation changes. Her husband brings a new woman into the house and announces that he is going to marry her, that Gazala must leave, and that she must abandon her daughter to her new ‘mother’. She departs in great shock and distress, and chooses to move to Kosovo to build a new life. She has a friend there she can lodge with until she settles in properly. She finds the results of a devastating war between the forces of Yugoslavia and the Kosovan Liberation Army which ended in the creation of Kosovo, the world’s newest state. She talks to many who experienced the war, and we learn horrendous tales of what they (and especially the women) went through. The resilience of the women is truly amazing. Gazala spends much time working with them helping them resume their lives.

She then learns from her friend that her former husband has also abandoned his second wife, that she is terminally ill and has sent her daughter to, of all places, Kosovo to be cared for by a woman she send funds to each month. Gazala has never given up hope of being reunited with her daughter and begins a search for her. It is in no way a spoiler to say that she eventually finds her – though not without a twist on the way.

The book demonstrates the victory of hope over current circumstances, however horrible they may be. Gazala goes through a great deal of anguish before she eventually finds her daughter. The women of Kosovo experienced horrors that no one should ever have to experience before emerging on the other side.The book is, of course, a timely and grim reminder of what is currently happening in Ukraine.

It is a work absolutely worth reading.

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  1. User: Yvonne @Fiction_Books

    Posted on: 27/01/2023 at 8:45 am

    It sounds as though you were really invested in this storyline and writing, so it is definitely heading for my ‘wish list’.

    A lovely review! 🙂

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