After Martin Luther King was assassinated, Ray was able to escape with a fake passport, and as he moved from one country to another, he kept reading the newspapers, delighted to see his name on the list of the FBI's "ten most dangerous criminals." His journey finally lands him in Lisbon, where he spends ten days waiting for a visa to enter Angola. But Lisbon was also the city that inspired Antonio Muñoz Molina, his most famous novel, and when he now decided to write a novel about Ray, the city became witness to three alternating stories: a murderous man on the run from justice, a writer struggling to find his literary voice, and the writer himself. Thirty years later, he reflects on his life, the life of his hero, and the form of the novel in which he tries to imagine the world with the consciousness of another man.
In As a Shadow Departs, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2018, Molina writes a captivating, powerful, and detailed novel, integrating the fictional event with how it is written about.
For the sake of Zayed, Maryam:
In my novel, I wanted to create a life for Mary, to change her fate, to push away death so that it could take others and keep her alive. This is my first novel experience, and success is from God.
For Zayed, Maryam, is a novel that tells about the Emirati girl, the Emirati family, and Zayed in the Emirati home, about solidarity and love in Emirati society and the view of girls in light of the development that Zayed, may God have mercy on him, established in this country. Maryam, who lives in the Emirate of Sharjah, goes through many situations and events that... You pass by any girl whose dream was to graduate from the UAE University, and Salem, Maryam’s fiancé, played a role in changing the events so that she could marry Mubarak, who died before Zayed was born, and the dream of graduating from the university evaporated. Will she be able to return to the university with Zayed in her care? There are many events in it of love and determination. And discover the facts.
هي رواية خيالية بطلها شاب من قرية البهو فريك يجد نفسه يوما في أرض لا تتعامل بالنقود كسائر البشر، وبدل ذلك وحدات الذكاء فكل عمل مقابل مال في أرضنا يعادل هناك قيمة معينة من وحدات الذكاء.