“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.
كلما تفكرت في تلك الكلمة اكتشفت أنها عبقرية بشكل غير عادى .. عبقرية لدرجة أنها تصلح للرد على أي سؤال لاتجد له إجابة .. أى سؤال في أي زمن ، وفي أي مكان .. فأحيانا ، كثرة الأسئلة التي لاتجد لها إجابة في عقلك يمكنها أن تقودك للإلحاد لو كنت ضعيف النفس أو لاتملك الإيمان الكافي .. وهذا ما كاد أن يحدث معي شخصيا .. الله لايرمى النرد ، وبالمثل ؛ لاشئ في الكون خلق عبثا .. ليس معنى أننا لا نفهم الغرض من وجود الكون وكيفية خلقه أن الكون مخلوق عبثا .. كلا بالطبع .. عقولنا دوما قاصرة عن فهم كيفية تفكير الإله ، ولماذا خلق كل شئ .. لماذا خلق البشر والكون .. تلك هي القضية العبثية .. كلما زاد العلم ، كلما زادت الأسئلة واكتشفت في قرارة نفسك أنه لاجواب هنالك .. كل ما يمكنك فعله هو التأمل ، والتفكير ومحاولة الإستيعاب .. الأدلة موجودة في كل مكان ، لكن العقول هي التي تأبى التصديق ..تلك هي الحقيقة المؤسية .. قبولها نضج وذكاء ، ورفضها حماقة وضيق أفق .. ولكن هؤلاء يفضلون أن يكونوا حمقى على أن يكونوا بشرا ضعفاء .. يفضلون التسليم بقوانين الإحتمالات ، والصدفة ، وينسون أن تواجدهم في هذه الحياة لا يمكن أن يكون صدفة أبدا .. وأن الله ، أبدا ، لايلعب النرد
Ever since the Parisian girl Marie-Laure lost her sight, she has been living her own world, either between the pages of the books her father brings her, or in the corridors of the National Museum of Natural History where he works, enchanted by the wonders of the museum and the imaginative stories she hears about its holdings, especially the mysterious jewel: the Sea of Flames. She spends her days with her father with her usual routine, until the war begins, forcing them to run away carrying a dangerous secret.
On the other side of the war, in an orphanage in a small German town, a German teenager spends his days with his little sister, fascinated by the magic of radio and its ability to transmit news and stories from distant lands. Werner pursues his obsession to become an expert in installing and repairing radios, until the war requires him to join the engineering forces in the German army.
Through their story, Anthony Dorr tells in his charming novel about the good that we may see despite the ugliness of war, and about what war does to dreamers.
After the enthusiastic revolutionaries attacked Hoshanak's house and burned musical instruments, books, and all the things they considered forbidden, he decided to leave Tehran, taking his wife, Rosa, his two sons, Sohrab and Beta, and the third daughter, Bahar, to settle in a distant village, hoping Preserving their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the chaos of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution sweeping the country.
The fates of all family members change, and they are divided between pain and memory, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the times, events, and narrative spaces that “Bahar” narrates intersect, mixing violence and brutality with mysticism, meditation, magic, and myths, invoking oral narrative traditions to confront cruelty with the power of imagination.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, Green Plum Tree's Rise is a fascinating journey through Persian history and mythology, woven in the style of magical realism, exploring the fate of hope and dream in Iran today.
Peralbo plays jazz in Lady Bird, where Lucrezia heard him and became passionate about his music, and he fell in love with its mystery.
After a long time, the narrator meets that musician “Peralbo” again, but now he takes the name “Giacomo Dolphin” and lives a different life. What happened during these years? Why did he change his name? What is the story of the stolen painting? Is the title of the song “Lisbon,” which is repeated over and over again, the key to the mysterious past?
In the humid rainy streets, in night bars drowned in smoke, and in nights filled with blue and pink lights, and to the rhythm of jazz music, the novel’s heroes strive to understand love, music, and the secret of a city from which there is no point in escaping, because it will follow them to the ends of the world.
In this novel, which won the National Prize for Literature and the Critics' Prize in Spain, Antonio Muñoz Molina writes, with a graceful detective plot, a love poem in love with music.
"A traveler by moonlight"
One of the most important Hungarian novels of the modern era, penned by one of the great Hungarian and European novelists alike, Szerb Antal, the famous author, novelist, translator and literary historian. This novel was published in its first Hungarian edition in 1937, achieving success at the local, international and global levels, and was turned into cinematic films, plays and serials. A novel that delves into the analysis of the human psyche, where the hero tries hard to return to the past through the time machine, and to complete his enjoyment of his youth away from marriage, but to no avail. Man does this, his destiny is written, and he must live it. The hero of our novel, Mihai, tries to escape from his married life, but the end of the novel is where it began. The novel ends with this sentence, “As long as man lives, something will inevitably and always happen,” along with other details.
