The Saffron

"Here is a different rendezvous. Two lovers met by chance... neither of them knows each other, yet neither of them is a stranger to each other! Connected despite all that distance."Yahya Al-Tayyib," the Egyptian archaeologist trying to escape from the stories of old lovers and the curse of heartbreak and the bitterness of solitude at the end of each relationship. He escapes to the desert in search of an ancient secret. And "Yasmina," the Greek girl who came to Egypt fleeing from a curse that strikes her every time she gets close to men.So she tried to seek refuge in the Egyptian desert with an ancient secret and a key to everything Yahya is searching for. They meet by chance, or so they thought, and thus the symbols of all the codes begin to be deciphered and intertwined as well. That''s how the two matters go together!An enjoyable and well-crafted novel... Dr. Ahmed Salama takes us on journeys through time, from a recent past and Yahya''s childhood and first love to the apple that expelled him from the paradise of this love and made him taste its fire."