Text in Arabic. In a masterful work of historical fiction, readers are given a glimpse of the lives of an imagined Qatari family, living in a northern village about one hundred and fifty years ago. On a Wednesday afternoon in the spring of 1896, Hessa bint Ghanem pleads at the feet of her husband, Mubarak bin Mishref, begging him not to take their seven-year-old son, Mishref, on the annual spring diving trip a treacherous journey that has cut short the lives of many men. She has had a recurring nightmare about this very day, one that haunts and terrifies her. But her husband thinks nothing...