IN THE BEGINNING WAS I

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>IN THE BEGINNING WAS I</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I</span><em>n the Beginning Was I</em> is a haunting fantasia of self-discovery love and longing-where dreams blur into memory and truth lies hidden between silence and shadow.</p><p>Spanning the windswept streets of California the timeless cafés of Paris the ancient alleys of Damascus and the turbulent soul of Beirut Mahmoud Farra crafts a lyrical meditation on identity purpose and the aching mystery of human connection. At once philosophical and psychological this novel dives deep into the subconscious unraveling the delicate threads that bind a man and a woman past and present self and soul.</p><p>At its core is a nameless narrator-an exile of sorts-not just from place but from certainty from belonging from himself. When a chance encounter with a woman who seems to know more about him than he does himself stirs something long buried he is compelled into a journey both across continents and into the depths of his own fractured psyche.</p><p>What begins as a search for lost time becomes a reckoning with memory trauma and the inner voices we silence. Through cryptic journals surreal dreams and whispered conversations the lines between reality and illusion blur-revealing that sometimes the greatest mystery is not in what we've forgotten but in what we've chosen not to see.</p><p><em>In the Beginning Was I</em> is a love story. A mystery. A mirror. A map. It is for those who have ever felt like a stranger to themselves for those haunted by questions without answers and for anyone brave enough to ask: <em>Who were we before the world named us?v</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>IN THE BEGINNING WAS I</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A novel of mystery and self-discovery</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>MAHMOUD FARRA</span></p>