Isela and David, at the Mexico City airport, wait for their eldest daughter who has gone to study in London. Five years since Patricia returned to the country! “No, it can’t be her, this shy face that emerges from behind an endless piece of fabric, this girl with her veiled head,” writes Sylvia, the little sister of this young woman who was transformed by a love affair, converted, in the literal sense of the word. And besides, Patricia is now called Aïcha, at her side stands the man who caused the misfortune, a Turk, Sayeb. Cohabitation is immediately painful, the couple claims a radical Islam, “We must cover the windows (…) remove the paintings (…) hide the photos, we must not receive visitors…”. Patricia the rebel, the committed citizen, has dissolved under the veils of Aïcha, religious, extinct, submissive to her man. The mother says amen to everything, the father remains silent before Aïcha and Sayeb slam the door. Patricia disappears for good, her name will no longer be spoken. For Sylvia, her big sister becomes an obsession, she wants to give her back on paper the existence that the veil and her husband took from her. Years of writing, documenting, investigating. Sometimes the phone rings and she reappears, these are the tears of isolation and violence, the story of the nose broken several times, the kicks in the stomach during each pregnancy. Sylvia Aguilar Zélény signs a breathtaking polyphonic story in which parents, (…)
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