Trees that stand for birds:
A collection of stories by Emirati writer Obaid Ibrahim Bu Melha. The stories revolve between surreal and absurd sarcasm, human conflict, and the mixing of concepts and ideas with chaos, to discuss the concept of literature and writing, the meaning of life, and the struggle between good and evil in the human soul.
From India's diary:
Every stage of a person’s life is beautiful if the person accepts it with its different circumstances. Some of its details remain engraved in the mind, both sweet and bitter, over the years.
Adolescence was one of the most critical stages I went through. At that time, I did not understand how everyone was dealing with me. Was I still a little girl with adult topics forbidden from me, or an older girl who had entered the world of thinkers and responsibilities?
Hind, here, is a face that reflects the aspects of life of many teenage girls in Gulf society and what ramifies this life related to relatives, friends, or other social relationships.
Having gone through adolescence one day, I can say to Hind: There must be hope that you always search for and wait for, despite all the storms you will face in your life and the stumbles in your steps. Know that hope is an inner peace that makes you smile despite the pain.
About the book:
This book is entitled (Clear Cracks):
It is a collection of short stories inspired by real family life
In the United Arab Emirates, in addition to it includes some messages
Guidance, and guiding stances taken from the events of his realistic stories,
And its different personalities, and its various circumstances, some of which came as a message
On the lips of the heroes of these stories, and some of them came as pauses for reflection
Through the writer’s experience and work in family counseling, expressing her opinion in presenting
Advice and guidance for the reader everywhere.
The scent of narcissus
It is a collection of stories that carry within it the harvest of the years. I derived its ideas from my daily observations, experiences, and coexistence with my students and colleagues, but it is not related to a specific character, as I formulated it to be a general situation that sometimes overlaps with more than one experience and more than one character, as the reader will live with the woman who sacrifices... She gave her life for the sake of others in “The Handkerchief”, the oppressed girl in “Abeer”, the arrogant girl “Shatha Al-Narjis”, the struggling teacher “Professor Marzouk”, the unfaithful friend “In the Wind”, and honoring parents “The Moment of Birth” and the downtrodden employee “Skyscrapers”. There is a view into the past through the story “Bars of Silence.”
I wrote this collection during my participation in the Aqdar Writing Program, which was organized by the Ministry of Education two years ago. The Ministry of Education printed limited copies without signing a contract or monopoly on copyright, simply to publish examples of the program’s work during that period, and then we were left with the option of publishing it, as it received remarkable demand and was chosen. One of the secondary schools in Sharjah considered it the best publication last year, and given the insistence of my colleagues and students to obtain copies of it, especially the keenness of a large number of female students to search for it in the exhibition, and the disappointment that it was not published, prompted me to take this step and come to your home, which has become an edifice of the word and a door of culture. To publish my collection, I ask the Almighty God for success.
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.
