The dust of promises

In a voice as dim as a lighthouse on a rainy night, he said, "Beware of loving a woman who loves bridges.†?' Once upon a September in Paris... Still heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring, elusive novelist Hayat, the narrator of The Dust of Promises finds himself adrift in Paris, where he has come to receive a photography award. His photograph of a traumatised war-orphan has been declared profoundly affecting by...