Mizzal leaves prison after a "revolution" has occured in his country (Iraq) and he sees that his wife "Shams" lives with his friend and former political teacher Salah> Now Salah is a politician in the new rifem. Mizzal wants Shams to come back and live with him, but Salah opposes this as he "married" Shams when they belived that Mizzal had died in prison. Shams does not know what she shall do because previosly she had loved Mizzal but now shw lives with an another man. There finds nobody to blam, only the past is guilty they think. But is it so? The present is harder then the past and large the altevations and disorderly political situations with out democracy makes their lives immoral. They discover that with out suffer, pain, and hardship man does not progress in life. But that is not all. Shams countryman, who she turned her back on when she married a "foreigner" and left her country, shadow her, like a nightmare. One can not turn away from them without having to pay a price and it was very high in this case.
Professional Reviews
Who crosses "The Glass Bridges"?
The auther Alrubaii writes about this novel in the magazine Aldestur, which is published in London: This book is a novel about different social conditions which are born in a difficult political situation. It is natural that the novel got a warm, tragic ending.
As one knoes there are different ways to read and understand a book and with this book in particular, the author himself points to this when Salah and his friend do not understand each other when they talk about Shams. One of them thinks they are talking about a painting by Dilakrua, while the other thinks they are talking about Shams. It means perhaps that not only the french revolution and their revolution are alike, but all revolutions are alike.
It is a symbolic, realistic, political and psychological novel.
