God's Patience
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... I close my eyes, trying to escape into sleep... But instead I again see slaughters, massacres, people who have had their eyes plucked out with knives, forced to eat them. I see men and women, I see those who brutalize their bodies, I see dead girls, who, after being raped, have been put back into their mother’s arms, men herded like cattle onto trucks and taken away to camps, beautiful women who are allowed to live, but only in brothels, healthy children who are taken away to be sold for further abuse.
I cry in despair and weariness, lifting my eyes to God: “Only you can do your will. You are sending us the message that humanity cannot resist your will. So what then is your will? My God, what is happening in Bosnia is your will? It cannot be your will! I, who have learned of your will, have felt your nobility, grace, and goodness, your love. I can never believe that this is your will...
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As Laura admits adultery to her husband, a merciless war erupts in their matrimony. The husband fails to function as a rational human any longer, as the knowledge of another man destroys his identity, awakening the murderer within him. The demon of jealousy causes obsessive rivalry between the husband and the lover, causing Laura to rediscover truth and values. In the house next door, a Bosnian Muslim experiences same drama globally, as a cruel war, ethnic cleansing, massacre, and systematic mass rape is happening in her homeland, to her very own people. The two women merge into one and undergo transformation of their spiritual and physical identity through tragedy in which male ego destroys and creates the world. Devaluation of values and hypocrisy of civilization cause the women to rebel and search for ultimate truth and justice. This combination of diary prose containing features of an urban love story is wrapped up in a deep, intimate rhythm of the self-enticed prayers of a modern woman, who is in search of ultimate strength and higher meaning of existence with both flowers and thorns she has to find meaning in.
About the Author
Azra Širovnik is Slovenian recognized and published author of six books, born in Bosnia to a well-known university professor, historian, and theorist of literature. She lives and writes in Slovenia, and her literary novels are based on psychology of relationships, women, and human nature.