‘M---, No Time
for Love’ is an author who writes English novels. He sees no need to include
women in his novels, and certainly no need for a female protagonist. With no
future projects in mind, he flies to Kiev, Ukraine, for a holiday. Here, where
no one knows him, he can be an ordinary person. M attends a funeral, then a
wedding where he knows no one.
A beautiful woman
stops him to remind him to tie his shoes. He rushes out to catch her, to find
out more about this woman with the lustrous face and emerald eyes. She is
amazed at the compassion and virtue she finds in his rare moment of
truthfulness. They meet, again by accident, at the Globus market. He is touched
by the “God Bless You” that once again precedes her goodbye. “It is her style,
the Maya style. She has a charismatic personality, and her aura is impeccable.”
She, raised by
Catholic nuns, finds in the ordinary Morkel, the love she has never known,
except the love of God. M--- finds her innocence, and the peace and comfort he
finds in her presence, captivating. Here, he discovers the female protagonist
for which his publisher and his readers have been clamoring. However, he says,
“if we could foresee the future, then many of our problems could be resolved; I
could have saved myself from the mistake of a lifetime.”
Words are
to the literary novelist and poet, what color is to a master painter, or notes
to a gifted composer. Zia packs a lifetime of love, loss, melancholy, and
forgiveness in 142 pages of masterful prose written in first person. He includes three poems to earmark and reread
for themselves. I have only felt the undercurrents of such powerful depths in
today’s words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Khalid Hosseini.
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