(Caroline), a novel focuses on the story of a British ship quarantined as a result of Corona

Damascus (ST):  The story of the British cruise ship Princess of Diamonds, which was considered early last year the third epicenter of the outbreak of the Corona virus in the world, served as the inspiration that prompted writer Iman Sharbati to write her novel (Caroline).

The novel includes many social and life cases in the Arab world and the world that appear through a cruise ship traveling at sea carrying hundreds of people and subjected to quarantine due to the infection of many of them with the Corona virus.

 The characters of the novel belong to many nationalities, from Caroline, the first heroine in the novel, to Isabel, Inge, the fashion designer and Professor Rakan it raises through them issues that unite the visions of the real man and remove from him all the factors of difference in terms of race, religion and gender, to unite everyone in the bonds of moral, human communication and loyalty.

We find in the novel that when love was found, the Italian, the Palestinian and the Algerian did not differ, and everyone coexisted on the ship in front of one goal, which is to reach safety by presenting their various issues, their means of livelihood, their lives, and ways to confront their difficult circumstances.

The novel is the product of a fictional narration that combines reality and connotations, so the writer has used language in novel techniques in a growing manner in order to ensure the success of plot and achieve an objective balance despite the complexity of events.

The events of novel moved to an open end and to the human and society standing on the ship in front of the Corona pandemic that spread in the world and humanity lost control of it.

The novel has won the first prize in the competition of Social Solidarity in the Time of Corona for Novelistic Creativity.

K.Q.