A train traveling with a single passenger is forced to stop for an entire hour, so the traveler leaves it and walks to waste time, but the paths lead him to a coal mine, then to a gypsy wedding, and finally to a place where five wolves were trapped, to carry out a plan targeting the village and its residents.
In an interesting plot, this novel pulls you in and carries you away without leaving you any chance to escape, as you follow the trail of this mysterious strange man and wonder: Who is he? A saint who came to save the village and its residents? Or just a mentally ill man running away with his madness? Or a philosopher? Or all of these together?
With linguistic and psychological intensity, Elena Alexeeva writes a novel that stands on the border between dystopia, magical realism, and absurdity, drawing inspiration from all of them without drowning in any of them. Therefore, in the year following its publication, it deserved the 2019 Novel of the Year Award and the National Book Center’s Feather Award.
Khanir and Katara:
The book Khanir and Katara from the Emirates is considered a live and live broadcast in which it displays the manual techniques and technical skills for crafting and manufacturing the most famous and valuable daggers and swords in the Emirates, as it displays the manual techniques and decorative arts that forged the daggers and swords of the rulers and sheikhs of the Emirates, which reveals the artistic and aesthetic creativity of traditional manual work and how the craft was transmitted. Genetically among the sons of Al-Sayegh Muhammad Al-Naabi. The Katara in question in the title of the book is the Katara of the head of state and the one who published the cover of the book, while the Katara in question in the title is the Katara of Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr II, may God have mercy on him and forgive him. The title includes the most important national heritage symbols of the UAE.
A heritage, technical and artistic book that represents a living workshop for the craft of crafting swords and daggers in the UAE for the author’s family. The author used many mental processes to support the facts and achieve scientific credibility of the information, in addition to field visits and personal interviews. Documenting the information was based on observation through cohabitation and linking information and facts shared with global civilizations on the other hand. The technical, the artistic, and the craftsman. The writer also relied on deduction, inference, comparison, and analysis to arrive at facts that had no scientific reference in the craft environment.
