Moving between Zabaltani, Dawaila, Saydnaya, and all the way to Istanbul, Ahmed Aswad - a tailor on a sewing machine - tells the story of his life as it appears to him, a life full of transformations and first experiences: the beginning of falling in love, traveling, and planning a murder.
In a special language that may seem neutral, but it is sarcastic and full of emotion, Wassim Al-Sharqi explores forgotten corners of the lives of a marginalized segment of Syrians before 2011, such as: smugglers on the Lebanese border, or sewing factory workers, and patrons of bodybuilding clubs and bars in old Damascus.
“Black” is a journey to delve into the motivations and drivers that direct people’s behavior and destinies, and an attempt to trace the source of the blackness that surrounds our lives and settles in our souls, difficult to disappear.
Current nectar
A summary of life experiences... written on a daily basis... and broadcast on social media, collected in this book...
His lines touch on every aspect of life. The book clears up the ambiguity about the most important topics in life. It also contributes to changing the reader’s mind to look at things from different perspectives and to improve his behavior in all life’s obstacles.
A current nectar born with the many experiences that we go through and that pass through us, so we take lessons and lessons from them to protect us from the evil of future losses.
Georg Hennick is a famous violin maker. When his life was coming to an end, he decided to resist oblivion and challenge life as a whole, in the name of art, by making an unconventional violin, unlike any musical instrument made before, to fill the universe with unrepeatable tones. As for Victor, the child who tells us this story, he met Grandpa Henik for the first time on his fifth birthday, when he got his first violin. He then met him many times later, and a great friendship developed between them.
In this novel, Victor Baskov writes, in a musical style, a warm story about art, the passage of time, the shadows of loved ones, and Bulgarian society and its diversity.
