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Airport scenes and farewell gestures become symbolic of absence as an enduring condition, reshaping the narrator’s body, spirit, and daily existence.","Before the Queen Falls Asleep  \nHuzama Habayeb  \nTranslated from the Arabic by Kay Heikkinen  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright Page  \nChapter One  \nChapter Two  \nChapter Three  \nChapter Four  \nChapter Five  \nThe Last Chapter  \nTranslator ’s Acknowledgements  \nSpecial Thanks  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published in the Arabic language as  by The Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, in 2011 First published in Great Britain in 2024 by  \nMacLehose Press  \nan imprint of Quercus  \nCarmelite House  \n50, Victoria Embankment  \nLondon EC4Y 0DZ  \nCopyright © 2011 by Huzama Habayeb English translation copyright © 2024 Kay Heikkinen  \nThe moral right of Huzama Habayeb to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and  \nPatents Act, 1988.  \nKay Heikkinen asserts her moral right to be identified as the translator of  \nthe work.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nA CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nEBOOK ISBN 978 1 52941 566 7  \nThis book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author ’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events  \nor locales is entirely coincidental.  \n[www.maclehosepress.com](www.maclehosepress.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter One  \nConcerning the Second Departure  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n“Your sandwich! Run and rescue your sandwich, Your Majesty, it’s burning!”  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nI had not thought that your second departure would be very hard on me, intolerably harder than the first. I had not anticipated that it would bring meso much sadness, that it would sicken my body and trample my insecure existence with a heavy, negligent tread, that it would cut so deeply into my spirit. After all, I had prepared myself for your departure, that self that incites to harshness and ostensible callousness, by inventing quarrels and bickering during the last few days before you left – quarrels of the kind that harbour mounting intensity arising from nothing, absurd, painful rudeness, and unjustified flares of rage. Quarrels that are a rebuke to the self, to my own self, a deepening evocation of pain in the heart, in my heart, loaded already with many times more than its capacity to comprehend absence. As usual before a difficult departure, I unloaded my accumulated wrath with the world on you, pouring out my resentment of the intransigent arrangements of life onto your own arrangements, which you wanted to keep far from my own. I struggled to love you less, but all I could do was to love you more.  \n“I hate you.” You said that to me in a voice that tattled anger, your eyes shooting out burning rage.  \n“I love you.” I whispered it in my heart, covering my face with both trembling hands so I would not see you while you hated me.  \nThen you said,“I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!” grinding your feelings and gnashing your teeth – those very teeth that had made me drag you to the dentist two days before you left, so he could clean the plaque from their roots, after I had scolded you for not taking good enough care of them. Then I closed my ears so that my troubled spirit would not be able to hear“I hate you” repeated three times, emphasised by the eruption of your young body, still childishly disdaining all rules of adult nutrition.  \nAt your first departure, I shed burning tears for an absence I had not yet experienced or prepared for, one likely to bring yearning yet unknown.“It’s only a few months and I’ll be back with you,” you said, struggling with atear ","cbCaitBqQD6UMuLI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitBqQD6UMuLI","pdf",2011171,205,"English","en",105,"# Chapter One\n## Concerning the Second Departure\n# Chapter Two\n# Chapter Three\n# Chapter Four\n# Chapter Five\n# The Last Chapter\n# Translator’s Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What is the central emotional conflict in Chapter One?\",\"answer\":\"The narrator wrestles with intense sadness and resentment while also repeating “I love you” in the face of harsh words like “I hate you.”\"},{\"question\":\"How does the narrator prepare emotionally 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