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The Broken Wings is a poetic novel written by Khalil Gibran. This novel follows the tragic love story of an eighteen years old boy(Gibran himself) who falls in love with Selma Karamy a beautiful, nobel girl in her twenties from the very first sight. Selma awakened Gibran’s soul to the feelings of love and passion by her purity and grace and her manners. Since the moment they met, both of them shared an inexplicable magnetic spiritual connection towards each other. But unfortunately, this love was doomed by society’s strict and thorny conventions and norms that forced Selma into marrying another man.
Through his modernist writing style, Gibran can transcend the reader into the realms of beauty, nature and love. His descriptions were so vivid and the imagery he used so astonishing which added a certain depth to his work and deepened the understanding of his words. Gibran also pointed out the hypocrisy of social heads and false social values and the nature of spiritual love above all which caused him some trouble at the time of publishing this book.
The only negative aspect of this book is the excessive use of metaphors and similes and the lack of suspense because from the start the reader can predict the outcome of the story.
Long story short this is a must-read book.
Through his modernist writing style, Gibran can transcend the reader into the realms of beauty, nature and love. His descriptions were so vivid and the imagery he used so astonishing which added a certain depth to his work and deepened the understanding of his words. Gibran also pointed out the hypocrisy of social heads and false social values and the nature of spiritual love above all which caused him some trouble at the time of publishing this book.
The only negative aspect of this book is the excessive use of metaphors and similes and the lack of suspense because from the start the reader can predict the outcome of the story.
Long story short this is a must-read book.