HWJN
by Ibraheem Abbas
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The English Edition of H W J N You can find the original Arabic here http://www.amazon.com/dp/1481971824/ The trailer can be seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItwkSbVMULI Hawjan is a mix between fantasy, SciFi and romance. While most people get excited about legends of spirits and genies (Jinn) and pass it on as the listen to it with awe and horror (after adding their own spices to it); here comes Hawjan. The young Jinni who is in his early nineties to redefine our understanding of show more the Jinn world that resembles ours in so many ways, still it is a parallel dimension to ours. He shares his tale so that we can live it through a "human" perspective regardless of the differences between our two worlds.As human populations expand Hawjan found himself surrounded by humans who had built a housing complex in the area surrounding his village forcing him, his mother and grandfather to live in one of these villas that is now haunted by humans. Hawjan's efforts to avoid interacting with the human family had failed, finding himself madly in love with Sawsan the human, Sawsan was a medical student, gentle and brilliant, barely a quarter of his age. Hawjan was unable to let her know about his feelings until he learned how to communicate with Sawsan through the Ouija board. He found out about her brain cancer that she had hidden from everyone including her family. As Sawsan's suffering increased and her health deteriorated her father was easy prey for a sorcerer who tricked him into believing that Sawsan's illness was a result of the devils who had haunted their new home, an so a deadly battle between Hawjan and the devils and sorcerer who had tried extort money from Sawsan's father. With the help of Eyad (Sawsan's colleague) who had agreed to Hawjan possessing him so that they would both risk their lives to save Sawsan and her father. show lessTags
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Hawjan is a jinn who falls in love with a human girl, Sawsan; and wrestles with his own supernatural family and the forces of magic, at the same time mildly critiquing the structures of society in Saudi Arabia (though not much in so far as the status of women is concerned). The book was a huge best-seller, if controversial, in Saudi Arabia and the wider region, and apparently will be filmed soon. I must say I'm not a huge paranormal romance fan in normal times, but it was interesting to see the tropes adapted to a very different cultural setting.
Hawjan is a jinn who falls in love with a human girl, Sawsan; and wrestles with his own supernatural family and the forces of magic, at the same time mildly critiquing the structures of society in Saudi Arabia (though not much in so far as the status of women is concerned). The book was a huge best-seller, if controversial, in Saudi Arabia and the wider region, and apparently will be filmed soon. I must say I'm not a huge paranormal romance fan in normal times, but it was interesting to see the tropes adapted to a very different cultural setting.
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- Canonical title
- HWJN
- Original title
- حوجن
- Alternate titles
- Ḥawjan
- Original publication date
- 2013
- Original language
- Arabic
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- 41
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- Reviews
- 1
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- Languages
- Arabic, English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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