Title: Wasmiyah Leaves The Sea

Author: Laila al-Othman (Kuwaiti)

Translator: Wang Fu

Publisher: Sino-Culture Press

Edition: 1st Edition, May 2017

Format: 16 - mo

Binding: Soft - hardcover

Printed Sheets: 7.5

Word Count: 60,000 characters

ISBN: 9787507546538

Price: 28.00 CNY

The story begins in an era when oil in Kuwait had not yet been extensively exploited. Their love for the sea transformed the beautiful friendship between a pure - hearted boy and an innocent girl into a love that transcended the gap between the rich and the poor. However, the old traditions opposed people's freedom to love and deprived women of their right to love. For the sake of love, they both threw themselves into the embrace of the sea. The entire book is filled with a deep affection for the sea.

Leila Osman, a Kuwaiti female writer and a member of the Arab Writers' Association, is mainly known for her short - story collection Women in the Vessel. Most of her works expose how old traditional customs restrict women and stifle love, fully demonstrating the pursuit of women's liberation and women's rights. Wasmiyah Leaves The Sea was rated by the Arab Writers' Association as one of the 105 best Arab novels and novellas in the 20th century.

Wang Fu, female, was born on August 9, 1945. She is a senior translator. In 1969, she graduated from the Arabic Department of the Faculty of Oriental Languages and Literatures at Peking University. From 1979 to 1981, she studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Baghdad. She has been engaged in foreign publicity work in Arabic and once served as the chief editor of the Arabic version of China Today magazine of the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration. She has published nearly 80 translation works in Chinese and Arabic, covering different fields such as novels, poetry, literary criticism, culture, history, philosophy, medicine, and religion. For example, her literary works include A Sad Smile (Syria), Reflections on Turning Seventy (Lebanon), Muqam (China), etc.; literary criticism works like Literature and Literary Criticism (Bahrain), etc.; poetry works such as The Mu'allaqat (Arabic ancient book), Characters and Colors (Saudi Arabia), Selected Poems of Chen Yi (China), etc.; historical works like A General History of the Jews (Egypt), etc.; and philosophical works like The Sons of the Awakened People Live Forever (Arabic ancient book), etc.