Amani
Amani is Yehya’s girlfriend and the most willing of his friends to take direct risks.
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Spoiler-freeAmani is Yehya’s girlfriend and the most willing of his friends to take direct risks. When Tarek and the hospital refuse to produce the X-ray, she enters Zephyr Hospital to retrieve it. Authorities arrest her and hold her in absolute darkness until her confidence and grasp on reality begin to break. She returns traumatized and repeats an official fiction about the uprising, but later reconnects with Yehya. Abdel Aziz has said Amani’s condition begins to improve and that she remains one of the novel’s sources of hope.
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