Traces of Enayat Format:Paperback through the rain and through

through the rain and through the deepest snow

displacement and exile

because Harmon has the appearance of perennial youth

the destruction of nature by industrialization

Traces of Enayat Format:Paperback through the rain and throughWhen Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great yet forgotten novel written by Enayat al Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend, who had been Egypts biggest movie star at the time; she is given access to Enayats diaries. Mersal cant accept, as has been widely speculated since Enayat's death, that a publishers rejection was the main