What Have You Done with Your Kids, DAD?

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What Have You Done with Your Kids, DAD? is written by Ezza Agha Malak and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1952799384 (ISBN 10) and 9781952799389 (ISBN 13).

'Ezza Agha Malak's new novel, What Have You Done With Your Kids, Dad?, touches upon some particularly painful issues as it describes the abusive relationship of an overbearing, Muslim man seen thru the eyes of his own young children. The progressive breakdown of the couple means more than the separation of two adults with children. Not only do these young ones have to face the terrible psychological assault upon their own mother, but they also have to reconcile themselves with the loss of their father and with his wrongdoing. No longer a sought after, loving, role model, their father has become a repulsive figure symbolizing the suffering of their mother whom they strive to protect. When the mother and her two children flee a devastated Lebanon at war in 2006, they all but abandon their cultural roots behind for an unknown and uncertain future in France. Ezza Agha Malak has already displayed the immense depth of her talent as a writer in a previous acclaimed novel in translation, Anosmia: Nostalgia for a Forbidden Sense. In this new novel, narrated by the young son, she takes an intelligent approach in systematically revealing her sensitive subject. She lets her story develop by itself, and her criticism of machismo, or rather, her denouncing of the use of a religious Code of Law favourable only to men, demonstrated in the narrative by a ludicrous, shameless hypocritical husband/father, makes the point clearly. Ezza Agha Malak does not criticize Islam as a "bad" religion; she shows rather that a restrictive interpretation of it leads to the denigration of and humiliation of women. As a writer, she aptly narrates the cause for women's rights, as a battle worthy of being fought.