Pandemic neurosis:
The boat got stuck at sea; The anchor sank deep into the hole of a huge rock. What can Shaddad do, when darkness has mixed in and he can no longer see the palm of his hand in front of him?! He sat on the stern of the boat, with his fishing gear next to him, which did not harvest anything from the bottom of the sea, and the wind began to shake the chest of the boat, and it rose and fell like a camel trotting in a desolate desert valley, and Shaddad’s body shook as if it were on the top of a howdah.
Fear began to overwhelm him when the wave roared, and the boat flopped between towering mountains whose thunder rose, and complete darkness surrounded existence, the color of deep black holes.
Alone on Baraway Island, Ingrid lives after everyone has left, roaming the ruins, repairing what can be repaired, and catching fish and bodies that wash up on the island's shores. The young woman struggles to hide a big secret that could put her in danger, as the country witnesses the final months of World War II.
In this novel, Roy Jacobsen completes the story of Barawe Island, which began with "The Invisibles", with his delicate narration, natural images, and brief sentences that hide the truest and hottest feelings behind them.
“White Sea” is a novel about new beginnings that make their way from the ashes of a devastating war, about friendships and love, the faces of those passing by and the dead, and about people who remain where they are in the face of war, bidding farewell to the departed and receiving those returning, and monitoring the passing of days and the succession of seasons.
In his childhood, Tammuz watched a film about the life of a young boy, and through it he was surprised at how much cinema can convey human lives and their details: “There is someone far away who lives just like me!” Since that time, he became fond of films, and their heroes became friends with whom he lived. In his youth, he traveled to Dubai, to collect money and realize his dream of studying cinema, but he became immersed in the worlds of sex and money and moved away from his dream, until the revolution and then the war broke out in Syria, when he woke up from his nightmare and realized that hundreds of films were waiting for him in his homeland to wake them from their slumber.
“Between Ropes of Water” is a novel about the love of cinema, in which Rosa Yassin Hassan combines, with a unique technique, reality with films, so that we can hardly distinguish between reality and imagination, we meet characters we loved, we read phrases we heard, and we re-draw scenes we liked...
Unlike the rest of the men in his village, Mario decides not to spend his life as an ordinary fisherman, so he decides, using his bicycle, to work as a postman in a small village, even though it only has one person who receives and sends letters. Chile's greatest poet, Pablo Neruda.
In his exile there, the poet lives as an observer and participant in the great changes taking place in Chile, and through small meetings and discussions about love, poetry and politics, a special relationship is established between him and the young postman who is immersed in love and enchanted by Neruda’s poetry, which he sees as his right because poetry does not belong to its writer but to those who need it. .
Through charming details of the human relations in a small village between the poet steeped in politics and the postman in love steeped in poetry, Scarmeta recounts the great political changes that took place in Chile and the rise and fall of revolutionary dreams.
