The two brothers, Helmy and Diaa, work in a car repair shop, while their mother works as a dancer in a nightclub.
Every day, when she goes out to work, one of the brothers disguises herself in her clothes to imitate her, and exercises the same dominance over the other with which she treats them.
In a theatrical text based on the play “The Maids” by the French writer Jean Genet, and taking place in the poor post-war neighborhoods of Damascus, Zain Saleh raises the questions that an entire generation suffers from about power, family, asylum, and gender.
Some of them call it (the service of knowledge), and some of them call it (the compulsory service), but the truest name for it is the name given to it by the public: (compulsory). Compulsory, no matter how much they cover it with national cellophane, will remain one of the heaviest experiences that a person goes through. He will live a long time and die, and the heavy feeling that there is a gun on his shoulder will never disappear.
Since her childhood, Yusra Mardini’s dream was to become a professional swimmer and represent Syria in Olympic sports tournaments, but the intensification of the battles in Damascus in 2015 reduced her dream to just survival. Like tens of thousands of Syrians dreaming of living in peace, Yusra set off with her sister Sarah, and some of their relatives, on the terrible asylum journey to Europe, carrying with them their dreams of a safe life and resuming professional swimming, but in the middle of the trip between Turkey and Greece, the rubber boat’s engine stopped working. Work, and the boat loaded with passengers began to sink, and despite their many attempts to call for help, no one responded to them. Seventeen-year-old Yusra, her sister, and some other passengers jumped off the boat. To lose weight, they swam with it until they reached Greece, after which the sisters continued their dangerous journey overland to Germany. From swimming to save her life and the lives of her friends, to swimming with a dream of an Olympic medal, Yusra tells her extraordinary story from a refugee fleeing a war-torn country to an Olympian in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. ***** Yousra, we could not be more proud of you for your courage, your ability to resist difficulties, and for the wonderful example you set for children everywhere. Former US President Barack Obama
Following the Pinochet coup, which overthrew President Salvador Allende, thousands of Chilean families emigrated to escape the new regime, including the Lucho family, who headed to Germany.
For his parents, time stopped the moment he left Chile, waiting for the moment of return, and the world was divided into two parts: the lost homeland, and the remaining countries, and like an entire generation that refuses to accept what happened, they sank into (ghettos) of sadness; Europe was offering them lungs of freedom, but it was also inflicting on them the pain of distance.
As for Lucho, Germany was a different country full of what was worth living: he had daily challenges in the street and school to live, new cultures to discover, friendships, enmities, quarrels, and the first heartbeats he had to experience; All this without forgetting his inherited duty towards his motherland.
About the obsessions of asylum, failures, dreams, and disappointments, Scarmetta leaves his teenage hero to tell his story, presenting us with a charming model of friendship, companionship, and the struggle for justice.
"Chanca", "Texcacal", and "Chon Bum" are three cities in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula that enjoyed great religious importance during the class war waged by the Mayas against the Spanish colonizers. The religious importance of these cities is due to their being centers of the phenomenon of speaking crosses.
In this wonderful book, the French writer (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008) tells, with great poetry, about his observations in these towns, in a captivating style. The trees, the water, the wind, the forests, the sky, and the earth, all of them become humanized in Le Clezio’s writing, as He has a unique ability to transform nature and its elements into vibrant, sensual things.
Rosario receives a bullet while she is receiving a kiss, this is how Jorge Franco begins his novel, and in those moments that Rosario spends suspended between love and death, the narrator tells us the story of a strange and mysterious love that he lived on one side with her, recalling with remarkable movements the past of “Rosario,” or rather what he was able to know from her past. She was the one who grew up in the city of Medellin, where there were weapons, crime, and poverty, and she used scissors as a tool to carry out all her crimes until they became close to her name.
In quick and intense flashes, the writer draws the features of an unpredictable, mysterious character who kills his victims in cold blood while imprinting the kiss of death on their lips. When he does this, he does not reveal everything, but rather provokes the reader’s imagination, inviting him to participate in completing the picture.
After the death of his father, Geronimo Frank, the scion of a wealthy Austrian banking family, decides to break from his family's traditions and move to live on a small island in the Adriatic Islands, and to reopen the large store there. Despite the tragic legend associated with the marriage of the previous store owner, which befell the new owner, He succeeds in preparing for marriage to the most beautiful girl on the island, Alia Aymar.
During the preparation for this legendary wedding, Rino Kubita, the young revolutionary and son of the island's popular hero, becomes aware of the existence of arrangements for an Austrian invasion of this island, so he organizes a resistance squad to kill the invading soldiers.
Between the preparations for the wedding of the century, as described by the islanders, and the fluctuating feelings of Alia Emar, who loves music, and the anticipation of some of the islanders for the retaliatory invasion of the dead soldiers, Scarmita narrates in his charming and sarcastic style about the preparation of an entire continent for world war, and about a strange asylum journey to the safe paradise, Chile.
In the late seventeenth century, Poncet, a French herbalist, travels; To live in Cairo, one of the centers of an unusual alliance between the Ottoman Sultanate and one of the European kingdoms: France.
Although he works in secret, Because he does not have a legal certificate, his fame reaches the French consul, in whom he finds the ideal person to lead a secret embassy from the French king to the Negus, King of Abyssinia, whose declared mission is to treat the Negus, while it seeks to restore French-Catholic control over Abyssinia, in a time of religious and expansionist conflicts. Which the European kingdoms are fighting among themselves.
Poncet soon discovers that the exceptional circumstances of his journey to achieve the goals of the King of France and the Pope are - alone - the solution to the exceptional obstacles that separate him from the one he loves.
In his work, which won the Goncourt Prize for First Novel and the Mediterranean Prize, Ruffin does not content himself with presenting historical facts, but rather takes us with him on a journey full of life between the neighborhoods of Cairo, the mountains of Abyssinia, and the palaces of France. To tell an exciting adventure about love, friendship, and sacrifice in an era full of conflicts, conspiracies, and betrayals.
The most amazing thing about this story is that it is true! Not only because of the strangeness of its events, as the Renaissance era is rich in wondrous adventures, but the reason for its strangeness is the almost complete forgetting of it.
The two orphan children: Ghost and Columb are deceived; To participate in a colonial mission to explore the new world, as it is their only hope of meeting their father, the disappeared knight. This forgotten expedition is led by Philoganion, a warrior returning from the Crusades, bringing with him a diverse team of soldiers, workers, engineers, as well as an unprecedented element; Children of orphan age, the age that allows them to learn new languages quickly enough; To work as translators with the indigenous people.
On one of the most mysterious and exciting French campaigns of the Renaissance, and through the story of two orphans searching for hope and the human struggles they go through, in his book, which won the Goncourt Prize, Ruffin takes us on a captivating historical journey from the shores of France at the beginning of the era of religious unrest to Brazil with its red woods. To describe to us man's struggle with nature, and the first encounter between different civilizations, with the curiosity, fear, admiration, and passion it carries.
We are the generation of war, and our parents are the generation of defeat, and between them souls grew old, and the concepts of war and love became similar to them.
Things are too big to tell, but I believe that a story alone is capable of creating a small homeland that we carry in our pocket, and that we talk about to our children who were born outside the homeland, and who carried its mark on their faces, tongues, and identities without seeing a stone in it. Only a story is sufficient to create the imaginary homeland in their minds alive. .
This collection deals with stories from the lives of women who lived between two rivers. Between Syria and one of the asylum countries, it is concerned with the small details of these two lives, and the effects that the war had on the lives of these women: disappointment, loss, escape, and love.
It is an attempt to overcome the great scene of war, and the frost of the borders creeping as a river of ice between the shoulders, with small details, in which the voice rises and asks: “Yes, I lived between two rivers, but which of them lived in me?”
Tirano Benderas suspects Colonel Domitiano della Gondra of conspiring against him, and when he discovers a simple mistake committed by the latter, he provides the tyrant with the pretext he needs to arrest him, so he issues a secret order for his arrest, but a prostitute who can read minds knows about this, and warns the colonel. In the midst of the country's annual celebrations, Della Gondra flees and joins the rebels against the tyrant's rule.
In this novel, which is considered one of the first novels written in the Spanish language about the dictator, before other writers from Latin America entered this field, “Ramon del Paye Inclán” presents a vivid depiction of the character of the tyrant, in a circular structure, full of short chapters and closed scenes that together constitute A rich text with its internal rhythm, wonderful images, and multiple linguistic levels.
In 1949, writer Helen Hanff began correspondence with a used bookstore in London, asking them to help her secure some classic books that she could not find in New York. Over the course of 20 years, letters are exchanged between her and the store’s employees, especially Frank Doyle, who secures the books and sends them to her. This correspondence begins with a request for a copy of Hazlitt’s Three Essays and gradually deepens, building a transparent human relationship between book lovers on both sides of the ocean. In the details of their personal lives on the one hand, and chronicling the history of the two countries on the other hand, it includes talk about the food crisis in Britain after rationing, the pivotal elections in both countries, the sports clubs, their social life, Frank’s family news, the development of Helen’s professional career, and even the method of making pudding.
“Adham” was born multiple times, which is difficult to count. And in each of his births, he carries a different personality and another life, to the point where he can be described as multiple versions of a single human being, or to borrow what he says about himself: “I am all formulations. Open endings and closed beginnings. I am the ultimate formula. I am everyone, women and men, a part.” A masculine part in a feminine personality, and a feminine part in a masculine personality. I am the one who desires immortality.
In this novel, Maha Hassan reaches the height of experimentation in writing, ignoring the rules, surrendering herself to the pleasure of storytelling, to the philosophy and philosophies of her hero, trying to write his biography in his endless births.
From a meeting between Mihai, who is spending his honeymoon in Italy, with an old friend, the events of this novel begin. He soon finds himself leaving his wife at a train station, and begins his own journey, searching for himself and the memories of his youth. Traveling from one city to another, Mihai experiences the anxiety of his existential questions, and meets friends of that period. He learns the reason for Tamas’ suicide, and Eva’s relationship to this incident, but what does he really want from recalling stories told by time?
In this novel, which is considered one of the most prominent Hungarian novels in the modern era, which achieved great success, was translated into several languages, and was adapted for theater and cinema, the reader feels as if the author is able to penetrate his depths, and not only the depths of his characters.
John is assigned a strange mission: to investigate the truth about a rare love story in the ocean country. But he soon noticed that the country he came to had no children. Little by little, the truth is revealed to him that people are afflicted with a strange disease that is leading them to their end. The women revolt and the authorities confront them by denying the problem, and a brutal war breaks out, the smallest details of which are recorded by John in his report, while he continues to search for the alleged love story, but what will happen when he discovers the only man who has not been infected with the disease? In "The Women Who...", one character breathlessly delivers the story to the other, thus building the architecture of the novel that presents, within the folds of its strangeness, imagination, and unreality of its events, a legendary story, but it is verifiable in our real world.
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