ABOUT TARIQ'S DAUGHTER
Tariq has done very well without God; he is wealthy and powerful. His only problem is his wayward wife Nina and his rebellious daughter, Mona.
When Tariq loses his wealth, the family must flee their small village in Egypt or risk death. They find refuge in Australia where Tariq builds a life for his family.
Caught between two cultures, an unhappy marriage and a set of childhood memories, Mona finds herself needing to confront herself and her past. There she finds things are not as they seem, and her future will once again be determined by her father’s past.
Tariq’s Daughter is a story of redemption and a coming of age. Set within a cross cultural setting that spans three countries, this is a story that explores the difficulties of finding
one’s relationship with parents and oneself and the healing required when there has been a severance in those relationships through trauma and violence.
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Themes: Cultural/religious differences, trauma and mental health, domestic violence, loss and grief, healing and redemption.
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Intended for mature readers.
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COMING SOON
READER COMMENTS
'Tariq's Daughter is engaging and well-crafted. It sheds light on amalgamated societies'
- Mohamed Anab, Cultural Adviser, Beta Reader.
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'I finished reading thinking that the plot would be a great screenplay'
- Jenny Grant, English Teacher, Beta Reader.
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'I really enjoyed Tariq's Daughter. It never failed to hold my interest and I was keen to see what happened to Tariq, Nina and especially Mona'
- Nan McNab, Editor and Mentor.
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'An extraordinary feature of Jehan Loza’s novel is how she draws from her main character, to express the conflicting inherited and historical traditions of Mona's father, in order to find herself. In a haunting way Loza's novel draws upon the differences between Mona and her father in her struggle to be able to forgive him. But Loza leaves an open question for the reader to evaluate whether those differences are ever reconcilable'
- Dr. Beth Z Charles, Social Anthropologist, Beta Reader.​
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'A powerful and moving narrative. a parable for our time'
- Daniel Burton, Reverend Canon, Beta Reader..