Book Description | The novel "The Harvest" by Youssef Ziedan is a fictional novel set in a romantic historical atmosphere. The novel delves into the depths of what happened during the two years preceding the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, which destroyed several countries and turned them into harvests. The novel tells the story of "Bahir", a young Egyptian Baha'i from a middle-class family, and "Yara", a Lebanese girl of Druze origins, and how they meet in the streets of Alexandria and fall in love with each other. Things get complicated when Bahir's close friend "Ano", who is obsessed with the "Anunnaki" belief, appears and begins to attract Yara's attention. The novel mixes romance and history and raises philosophical questions about the meaning of human existence, the role of fate in human life, and the contradiction between human brutality and spirituality |