The Restituion Of Love

By Marcos Pontal

Written by Marcos Pontal, “The Restitution of Love” is a novel that takes the reader to episodes experienced by the couple Aísha and Zayn, who marry the blessing of their mother-in-law Fátima, in 2011 amid great bloody conflicts in Syria. These two women, already widows, seek strength after losing families and friends, cross borders with many difficulties to survive in another country and end up having their lives completely transformed by love, compassion and resilience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Clube de Autores
• Release date: Jun 13, 2024

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Original title: A Restituição do Amor – Um amor Que Resistiu Fronteiras

Copyright © 2019 by Pontal, Marcos.

The contents of this book may be reproduced only with the disclosure of the source.

Cover: Marcos Alexandre Machado (Marcos Pontal).

Author review: Marcos Alexandre Machado and Roseli Laurência Souza Machado.

Music used in Chapter 4 and page 49: How big are you (The Store Gud), copyright, Rev. Carl Gustav Boberg 1886.

Used on page 98, A job in the void, copyright, Maria Rosa Manfrim Machado, Fr. Marcelo Luiz Machado and Marcos Alexandre Machado (Marcos Pontal).

ISBN: 9798612800545

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Merchandising on page 75, Open Doors Mission.

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SUMMARY

Preface.................................................................. 05

Chapter 1 - The Beginning of Great Love ............ 07

Chapter 2 - Irreparable Losses ............................ 20

Chapter 3 - New times ......................................... 33

Chapter 4 - Refund ............................................. 45

Chapter 5 - New life ............................................ 55

Chapter 6 - The reunion of love .......................... 61

Chapter 7 - Memories of love in Syria …............ 69

Chapter 8 - Persecuted Church ......................... 76

Chapter 9 - The return of love ........................... 80

Chapter 10 - The rebirth .................................. 90

Chapter 11 - A void in the heart ........................ 94

Chapter 12 - Original Poetry A job in the void .................................................................. 99

Afterword ............................................................ 104

I study your peace .............................................. 105

Thanks................................................................. 107

About the author................................................... 108

Author's note ....................................................... 110

PREFACE

I am flattered to be the (1st) reader of this romantic drama project. I confess that with every page I read, I was enchanted with such originality, tenderness and hope, that spring from the fingers of Marcos Alexandre Machado, Vulg Marcos Pontal, a newcomer in literary life, writer, novelist, whose trajectory is unique.

In your first romantic drama as I said above. You dear reader, will travel in this masterpiece of fiction divided into 12 chapters, of courageous strength, and conflicts of two women who did not accept labels or limits imposed by the culture of their country, but united as the beautiful narrative of a work- Biblical masterpiece of Ruth and Naomi, from the Old Testament. Nowadays when people are too busy to love and respect differences. You will find in this book the same example of loyalty. Your pain is also mine, your joy makes me feel good, your success makes me proud, wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you stay, I will stay overnight. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Wherever you die, I will die and there we will be buried. So Jehovah do to me and add to it, if anything other than death separates me from you. (Ruth 1: 16-17).

I invite you to read it with me.

Roseli Laurência Sousa Machado.

CHAPTER 1

THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT LOVE

Syria

M

arch 2011, pro-democracy protests erupted in the southern city of Deraa, inspired by the Arab spring uprisings in neighboring countries.

When the government used lethal force against dissidents, there were demonstrations across the country demanding the resignation of President Bashar Hafez Assad.

The climate of revolt spread, and the repression intensified. Opposition supporters took up arms, first to defend themselves, and then to expel security forces from the areas where they lived. President Assad has vowed to end what he called foreign-backed terrorism.

There was a rapid escalation of violence, and the country

plunged

into

civil

war.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British NGO that monitors the conflict based on a network of local sources, recorded 353,900 deaths as of March