إتيكيت التحية والمُصافحة · إلقاء التحية من قبل القادم على المُقيم، والمارّ على الجالس. · الرّد على التحية بتهذيب. · إلقاء التحية قبل بدء الحديث، وعند الانتهاء منه.
We are the generation of war, and our parents are the generation of defeat, and between them souls grew old, and the concepts of war and love became similar to them.
Things are too big to tell, but I believe that a story alone is capable of creating a small homeland that we carry in our pocket, and that we talk about to our children who were born outside the homeland, and who carried its mark on their faces, tongues, and identities without seeing a stone in it. Only a story is sufficient to create the imaginary homeland in their minds alive. .
This collection deals with stories from the lives of women who lived between two rivers. Between Syria and one of the asylum countries, it is concerned with the small details of these two lives, and the effects that the war had on the lives of these women: disappointment, loss, escape, and love.
It is an attempt to overcome the great scene of war, and the frost of the borders creeping as a river of ice between the shoulders, with small details, in which the voice rises and asks: “Yes, I lived between two rivers, but which of them lived in me?”
Retired teacher Pius Fernandez receives from one of his students an old notebook found in the back room of a shop in East Africa. It turns out to be the diary of a British officer who lived seven decades ago in the small town of Kikono. The diary captivates the teacher, and he tries to recreate the world in it, and breathe life into the souls trapped there, discovering a dark, burning secret, the secret of a simple man named “Pippa” whose life, after his marriage to “Mariamo,” became painfully linked to the life of the English officer. As Fernandez follows the diary's trail, he himself eventually becomes one of the tales of the Book of Secrets.
In this novel, which won the Giller Prize in its first edition, in 1994, Vasanji writes an influential work rich in questions, about a very rich and complex world, vibrant with colorful images, against the backdrop of great historical changes.
This book deals with 51 thoughts that touch the heart and soul, wander in love, and leave with much sadness and joy.
The book also contains, at the end of each thought, various quotations that show the point of view of philosophers and intellectuals on every matter we touched upon and in every whisper the book made to you.
It presents a number of feelings and sensations that will cross your imagination, your seven circles, and the borders of your senses to touch your longing and longing.
This writer does not call for anything except that you read, then close your eyes... and live your dreams.
