Amira El Sherbiny “Emancipation“is a journey from skepticism to
faith.
From blogs and the e-publishing
world, she breaks into another world which is not far. The only difference was
her pen name, in the first world it was “Farida Saad” while in the second it is
“Amira El Sherbiny”.But finally she’s still the same person that we asked about
publishing her first novel, which was recently released and titled "Emancipation
".
Amira,
introduce yourself.
By profession I am a
pharmacist. I’ve loved reading and writing since I was a kid, and still do to
this day. All my life I have been writing, starting with my thoughts and short
stories attempts. Six years ago, I had a blog under the name of “Farida’s Tales”
which means “Unique Tales” .Through the experience of blogging I progressed to
writing articles and publishing them electronically and in the press; then I
completed my first fiction work under the name of "Emancipation", it was
published in 2012.
Talk
about your novel.
The novel is about a
woman in her thirties. I tried to show, through her love life and the stories
that surround her, the social and political conditions of my generation, as
well as my thoughts about love, marriage, and other personal issues.
Is it a
personal novel?
No, it is not personal; maybe the reader will think so
because I presented the novel in the format of “the protagonist narrator”; as
the heroine is the narrator. Some readers have asked me if I was talking about
myself, but no, it is fiction.
But there
are some similarities between you and the heroine of your novel.
Yes, that’s true,
but it is not an autobiography. The self is generally one of the author’s
tools, either by displaying a character that is close to her own, or hidden
behind introducing her personal ideology in the voice of one of her
heroes. But autobiography is a different
thing, and in my personal opinion it must be announced as a biography, for the
benefit of the reader from the experience of the writer, and I really respect
this kind of literature if it is neutral and honest.
Why did you
consciously make the hero anonymous, didn't you fear that this mystery may be boring
to the reader?
On the contrary,
this mystery raises the curiosity of the readers. The protagonist was not
anonymous, only his name was unknown, the name of the heroine as well. I have
deliberately done this because I believe that their love story is similar to the
stories of many others, so no matter if the names are changed, still the doubt
is what leads to the failure of love and the failure of any relationship,
whatever its characterization.
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