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SoPhia: a novel, is set between Johannesburg and Mauritius. It is the story of Zarreen Kader and her husband Majid Akram Noorani, or Mak. Within the bounds of an abusive marriage, Zarreen vows never to let her parents know about the abuse. Her parents are happy when she's happy. Mostly, she denies that it has any effect on her three children. Until the cracks begin to show and her life begins to fall apart. Will they as a family be able to cope when the underlying stories reveal themselves? Zarreen travels to the island of Mauritius where her Sufi grandfather once lived, searching for answers. Akram must face the dark reality of his past or be engulfed by it. As these stories occur side by side, we see how pain and compassion are necessary companions.SoPhia is not just a romance, but it is a love story, a story of self-realisation and engaged humanity.
"SoPhia is more than just another novel about domestic abuse, power, love and reflection. It is a beautifully crafted narrative about the human spirit and the power that we all hold to triumphantly soar beyond our own demons. It is an engaging tale about love and hate, passion and pain, violence and weakness, redemption and forgiveness ... and in the life journey of all its characteristics it draws us in to sometimes taking sides and at other times to feel the pain of being helpless observers. It engages us intellectually and sometimes drains us emotionally. And then it gently lifts the carpet from under our feet to take us on a magical ride into the mystical world of sufism; and from up there we witness just how much of our own strengths and weaknesses we've swept under the carpet, under the ground, out of sight! SoPhia gives us the courage to reach out from that carpet ride and to take hold of our strengths which we too often fear to discover. Though set in a Muslim household, SoPhia, like the South African film, Material, has the kind of narrative and characters that we can locate in every community and every culture. Its tale about taking ownership for our own lives is in deed universal. How it tells that tale is what makes the novel a real gem." --Ismail Mahomed, Festival Director, National Arts Festival, SA
'Harrowing, yet written with fire and poetry, this is an intriguing novel written by sociologist, Hassim.' -- Cape Times, Dec 2012
'SoPhia is not a romance, it is a love story about self-realisation and engaged humanity,' Daily Sun, Dec 2012
'A tribute to activism against abuse ... Hassim's talent as a writer is evident in SoPhia,' Sunday Times Extra, Dec 2012
'The story of abuse is written in many ways, but SoPhia looks at the hope and compassion required to alter the cycle of abuse,' Times Live
'This is a book that reminds us that we have to stand together in the fight against injustice,' The Post, Jan 2013
'SoPhia's subject matter gets tongues wagging,' Sunday Times, Jan 2013
'Hassim's latest offering is a compelling look at domestic violence within the South African Indian community and comes at a time when media debate is focussed on violence against women; it opens the discussion on abuse, patriarchy and shifting notions of femininity and masculinity,'Sunday Tribune, 27 Jan 2013
'To make sense of the ugly, the author depicts powerful scenes that victims of domestic violence are all too familiar with,' The Witness, 25 Feb 2013
About the Author:
Shafinaaz Hassim is a South African author, poet and sociologist. Her works include “Daughters are Diamonds: Honour, Shame & Seclusion- A South African Perspective” (2007) and “Memoirs For Kimya” (2009). Her first book was launched at the Cape Town Book Fair in 2007. She lectured at the University of KZN in Durban, South Africa. Based on her research, she has presented seminars at Humboldt University in Berlin and she has also lectured at the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, SA.
- Sales Rank: #1439747 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-20
- Released on: 2012-11-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
SoPhia is more than just another novel about domestic abuse, power, love and reflection. It is a beautifully crafted narrative about the human spirit and the power that we all hold to triumphantly soar beyond our own demons. It is an engaging tale about love and hate, passion and pain, violence and weakness, redemption and forgiveness ... and in the life journey of all its characteristics it draws us in to sometimes taking sides and at other times to feel the pain of being helpless observers. It engages us intellectually and sometimes drains us emotionally. And then it gently lifts the carpet from under our feet to take us on a magical ride into the mystical world of sufism; and from up there we witness just how much of our own strengths and weaknesses we've swept under the carpet, under the ground, out of sight! SoPhia gives us the courage to reach out from that carpet ride and to take hold of our strengths which we too often fear to discover. Though set in a Muslim household, SoPhia, like the South African film, Material, has the kind of narrative and characters that we can locate in every community and every culture. Its tale about taking ownership for our own lives is in deed universal. How it tells that tale is what makes the novel a real gem. --Ismail Mahomed, Festival Director, National Arts Festival, SA
--Ismail Mahomed, Festival Director, National Arts Festival
.. a powerful, moving work; and an important story ... --Phillippa Yaa de Villiers - SALA award-winning poet and writer ...There is a tactile sensuality and raw emotional energy that emerges from every page of this novel... --Lubna Nadvi - UKZN Harrowing, yet written with fire and poetry, this is an intriguing novel written by sociologist, Hassim. Fiona Zerbst for Cape Times, Dec 2012 --Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Lubna Nadvi, Fiona Zerbst for Cape Times
..reading this novel, I'm struck by the pervasiveness of narcissism in our society, both overt and covert, with the latter type being most insidious and damagin, and found not only in partners, but also in colleagues and so-called 'friends'. Recall an episode of Oprah, dealing with narcissism, acknowledging that most of us have some narcissistic traits (unavoidable given the me me me message in our media and cultural signposts), but are hopefully self-aware enough to control these. --Ayesha Kajee - political analyst --A Kajee
.. a powerful, moving work; and an important story ... --Phillippa Yaa de Villiers - SALA award-winning poet and writer ...There is a tactile sensuality and raw emotional energy that emerges from every page of this novel... --Lubna Nadvi - UKZN Harrowing, yet written with fire and poetry, this is an intriguing novel written by sociologist, Hassim. Fiona Zerbst for Cape Times, Dec 2012 --Phillippa Yaa de Villiers, Lubna Nadvi, Fiona Zerbst for Cape Times
..reading this novel, I'm struck by the pervasiveness of narcissism in our society, both overt and covert, with the latter type being most insidious and damagin, and found not only in partners, but also in colleagues and so-called 'friends'. Recall an episode of Oprah, dealing with narcissism, acknowledging that most of us have some narcissistic traits (unavoidable given the me me me message in our media and cultural signposts), but are hopefully self-aware enough to control these. --Ayesha Kajee - political analyst --Ayesha Kajee, academic, analyst
About the Author
Shafinaaz Hassim is the author of the bestseller: 'Daughters are Diamonds: Honour, Shame & Selcusion- A South African Perspective' (2007). She has presented courses based on her research at UKZN in Durban, SA and at Humboldt Universiteit in Berlin. She is also the author of 'Memoirs for Kimya' (2009) and the editor of 'Belly of Fire: an anthology' (2011) She lectures in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. 'SoPhia' is her first novel.
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Beautifully written about a horrible subject.
By SISTERS Magazine
SoPhia has been in my possession for close to a year, but I felt that I needed to be in the right frame of mind before I started reading it as the story was described as ‘tactile and raw’. SoPhia is exactly that. It touches on the sensitive issue of domestic violence in the South African Muslim Indian community.The issue is not skirted around but tackled in an honest and shocking way that I have not seen before.
“Zareen thought that her eyeballs might pop out of their sockets if he squeezed his hand tighter around her throat. There was no time to escape. Not even in her mind. She banged her palms against him, fighting to escape while her lungs struggled for air. Her legs dangled, as if detached from her body. The walls of her bedroom whirled around her, a witness to her humiliation, her doom.” (SoPhia) These opening lines set the precedent for the rest of the novel.
The back cover of the book has a gentle reminder that while SoPhia is a love story, it is not a romance novel but rather a compelling narrative of hope, compassion, self-realisation and rebirth.The novel is primarily set in Johannesburg, South Africa. The main characters are Zarreen Kader and Majid Akram Noorani. They are a typical middle class couple living comfortably in the sprawling northern suburbs of Johannesburg. Everything looks rosy on the surface, as that is the way Zarreen likes it to be, but this couple hides the ugly truth of their domestic violence and rape. Zarreen is oblivious to the fact that this could be having an effect on her children or maybe she is more oblivious to the fact that the abuse is having an effect on her as well. Evidently the cracks start to appear and the couple is forced to face their demons and the reality of their actions. Soon you are swept up in the couple’s journey of self-reflection, compassion, hope, love and forgiveness. We also come to know the relevance of the name of the novel when for a short while we are taken to the shores of Mauritius.
SoPhia is written beautifully and I often found it read more like a personal narrative than a novel. Shafinaaz is lyrical in her use of language to describe even something as insignificant as a typical Johannesburg summer afternoon thunderstorm. She draws you into the novel cautiously, you don’t know what to expect, and then slowly you can feel each punch as if knocking your own wind out. While it centres on domestic abuse in a Muslim home, this narrative could be found in any home around the world experiencing abuse. Shafinaaz weaves her words in such a way that you find yourself as an eyewitness to the lives of the main characters. She tackles the subject of domestic violence in a unique way but not in a way that the subject is skirted around unrealistically.
While Shafinaaz’s talent as a storyteller is evident and the storyline engaging I did find that at times the book had unnecessary distractions in the form of the personal stories of the other characters in the novel. I did not find them to have any relevance to the main storyline and at times I did wonder what was the point. The book moves at a good pace but the sub plots occasionally did put clogs in the narrative’s wheel.
SoPhia engages you on an emotional and intellectual level and at times the subject matter was hard for me to digest. Domestic violence in the Muslim home needs to be discussed on all levels and with complete honesty. As much as we would like to not air our dirty laundry, the truth is that it exists. Shafinaaz’s novel is a primer to this conversation our society needs to have.
Published in issue #55 April 2014 of SISTERS magazine, by Fatima Bheekoo Shah, a wife, mother food blogger, foodie and breast-feeding activist. Finally answering her calling to be a writer.
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