A story of Prohibited love, of terrorism and war, and the raw lives of a war-stricken land and its people. Tamina, a 19-year-old girl, survives a turbulent time, and meets a soldier named Jacob, from a land which she had never heard of. Despite being different from each other in all aspects, they find love amidst the war between her country and the budding terrorist organisation, the 'Sharias'. The story depicts her journey into adulthood, her land's unstable future in the hands of foreigners, of the terrorist organisation 'the Sharias' and her love that has been nipped by the cruelty of war and invasion by the foreigners as well as the 'Sharias'. A fiction written without a veil or extension, 'Under the merciless sun' is the raw depiction of those people and lands threatened by war, of foreign invasion and terrorism.

Under the merciless sun

The month was almost over and Tamina felt like her clock ran faster. By that time, both Yusuf and she had become good friends. Yusuf volunteered to go fetch water instead of Nasith with Tamina and since he was not alone, Nasith agreed to it. On their way, they talked a lot, about almost all the things in the world. Those were the times when Tamina felt content in her life. Her son was there, next to her, sharing all his worries and views of the world. 


‘You are from Belgarath, right?’ Arham asked suddenly. 


‘Yes, why would you ask?’ Tamina asked, surprised by her son’s unexpected question. 


‘I know someone from there, Uncle Kaidhan. He was the one who brought me to my parents.’ Arham said. 


‘Ohh...’ Tamina was confused. She didn’t know what happened to Arham after she had hidden him in a barrel or how her son ended up in Bayadar. 


‘You know that I am adopted, right?’ Arham asked seeing a confused Tamina. 


Chapter 26