Blinding White at Noon

She sighed.

To see without colour …

The mood.

The lines …

She sighed again.

A relief, this …

Prompting each to its own center.

Bare.

She nodded.

Plebian -- colours …

Vying

For

Some

Passing

Glance …

With the above lines from her novel Blinding White at Noon, Alida da Rosa throws up a new form of writing fiction.

Set in the desert of Kuwait, the novel tells of people who go about their daily lives voicing their loves, desires, doubts and fears as they battle the cosmos... The thoughts of the characters are written in free verse.