Publisher's Synopsis
Forbidden Voice: A Novel
A story of a borderless love that blooms from wounded souls, and a scream that echoes in the darkness of a deep well.
A Syrian girl Hifza's father dies in a bombing and her brother goes missing. Her uncle sells Hifza to an ISIS member because their home is manless anymore. She manages her escape from the 'rape house' and turns back home with a painful wound between her legs. Her mother, who is a child bride from Turkey, decides to go back her hometown in Turkey and gets her Turkish ID back to make a new life with her only girl Hifza. Once they cross the border by walking, they finds out mother's ID is used by another woman. For years... They find the woman and her family in Istanbul, and everyone finds themselves in a horrible life experiences whirlpool. While their exhausted bodies and wounded souls struggle with those dreadful stories, an emotional intimacy starts between Hifza and Yusuf, who is the youngest son of the fake ID user woman. Yusuf introduces Hifza and her mother to a Canadian tourist, who is a traditional tattoo photographer, since her mother carries a traditional tattoo on her chin. After all meaningful and mystic matchings and explanations about the traditional Inuit and Middle Eastern tattoos, hey start to send some emails to the photographer to tell their traumatic stories until the night Hifza and her mother get ready to cross the Evros River to reach Greece.
* But the real reason was not to flee death. There are things worse than death. I came here as I feared that my daughter and I were going to become spoils of war.
* Right now you can only reach this part of my body, shroud, but you're not going to wrap my entire body, because whatever happens, I'm not going to die!
* Which one was going to whet his curiosity? What difference was his question from asking a lamb that had tumbled down a cliff, "Which rock split your head open?"
