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Book cover of أصوات
أصواتسليمان فياض

Characters in أصوات

3 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Hamed El-Behairy

    Egyptian expatriate who made his fortune in Paris and returns after thirty years to his native village, bringing his French wife — a homecoming that exposes the gulf between the two cultures.

  • Simone (Voices)

    Hamed's French wife, a journalist to whom the village is exotic material for her writing; her presence and the village's suspicion of her set the tragedy in motion.

Supporting characters

  • Ahmed El-Behairy

    Hamed's jealous younger brother, a village shopkeeper who flirts with Simone; one of the narrating voices whose resentment feeds the story's escalating conflict.