After twenty years of work, Salem ends his service in the police cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion that has remained with him all these years: his horse. Family members have different feelings towards this guest, who will now become part of the family. The chains of storytelling revolve between the five children and the mother, and as they revolve, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different style from his previous novels, a story about a simple family that lives its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and its conflicts, to stir within us endless questions and contemplations, while freedom, in its broad meaning, writes the final chapter.
This is an important book in its content, title, and field, and it is a topic that has not been summarized in a book
In this detail and following the historical archaeological scientific method. Its author is a person who has communicated with the Emirates, and with the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah since he was a student at the university, and worked in difficult circumstances. He wrote many research and articles about the antiquities of the Emirates in general, and about the antiquities of Ras Al Khaimah in particular. He was creative, mastered, improved, and accomplished, and for this reason it can be considered One of the most active foreign researchers in the fields of antiquities related to the United Arab Emirates in general. He was attached to the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, lived and worked there, and mixed his thoughts with its antiquities and heritage buildings. Hence, the translation of this book comes to provide the Arab Library with a reference in architectural heritage, allowing readers to see the castles, forts and towers contained in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, which is considered one of the most important examples of traditional architecture in the United Arab Emirates. The reader will find in this book accuracy and methodology, explanation and detail, and pictures and illustrative drawings that will help the reader comprehend and understand what he has read.
Felipe sees bodies in every corner of Santiago, and seeks to match their numbers with the official death toll, arriving at a perfect number with no survivors. As for "Iquila" and "Paloma", they share the memory of a mysterious and cloudy childhood meeting, and a friendship that linked the parents of one of them with the parents of the other, in the past.
The three embark on an unexpected journey to recover the body of Paloma's mother, after she was stuck in Argentina due to volcanic ash.
Through a different and new narrative, Alia Trabuco Theran, in her novel that was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, tells us about the past that has not passed, about the dark family legacy of the children of those who lived under the Pinochet dictatorship, and about confronting the pain that extends across generations.
