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.
The book talks about Dubai... the city of dreams, the city of beauty and its founder, Sheikh: Mohammed bin Rashid Ali Maktoum, and we quote from it...
Tamer of life's riders, spoiler of horse cravings
With the wisdom of the desert, I enriched the lush horses and took care to name them until they appeared in time as a legend that walked on the lashes of sand with ease, and went slowly to ascend to glory with every effort. Under its spikes, the earth moved, and I was rewarded for its command, patience, secret, and effort. And you were the knight who was the appropriate guardian of the dreams of the wise and the pens of the nobles, and you, sir, were like your impeccable poem, taming the great horses and passing on longings for ages.
رواية العائد هي الرواية الثالثة ضمن ثلاثية مخطوطة بن اسحاق للكاتب حسن الجندي، الكاتب الذي اخترق عقول الشباب على علم ورضا منهم. متى ذُكر اسم حسن الجندي تذكر الجن والعفاريت والمخطوطات السحرية وما إلى ذلك من فزاعات النفس. يتميز أسلوبه بالوضوح والسهولة، وهنا تكمن المشكلة، حيث يوصل إليك الرعب بدون تعب منه