A memory drags another. An idea drags another. A moment drags another in a self-exploratory journey of a girl who is lost between her four addresses: between a mother imprisoned by her children and a father still stuck in a prison even after he was released. Between a lover who gave her all her hopes, only to come back and steal them from her, and friends who provided refuge that she rejected. Confused between divorce and the cause, between mother and father, between friendship, love and independence, trying to answer a simple question: Why can’t I bear the taste of milk?
Shortlisted for the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author
Author Biography
Shatha Mustafa is a young female novelist from Palestine who graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the American University of Beirut, she is currently working on a master's thesis in Geographical Development Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Ma Tarkto Khalfy (What I left Behind) is her first novel.
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Sheikh Zayed Book Award
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