ل من الممكن أن تعشق الأرض مغتصبها يوماً؟ هل من الممكن أن تنهض الأرواح من تحت الركام، معلنة أنها تحب من سلبها حقها يوماً؟ هل هذا هو الحبّ الذي حلمت به "جوليا" بطلة، رنا اليسير وأحمد اليسير في رواية لَستُ قدّيسة وهي صغيرة، ومزقها وهي عروس ليلة خطبتها، وأحياها وهي مبعوثة سلام فوق هاوية الموت؟
John is assigned a strange mission: to investigate the truth about a rare love story in the ocean country. But he soon noticed that the country he came to had no children. Little by little, the truth is revealed to him that people are afflicted with a strange disease that is leading them to their end. The women revolt and the authorities confront them by denying the problem, and a brutal war breaks out, the smallest details of which are recorded by John in his report, while he continues to search for the alleged love story, but what will happen when he discovers the only man who has not been infected with the disease? In "The Women Who...", one character breathlessly delivers the story to the other, thus building the architecture of the novel that presents, within the folds of its strangeness, imagination, and unreality of its events, a legendary story, but it is verifiable in our real world.
The rise of the Third Reich, World War II, the fall of Nazism, the disintegration of Germany, the rise of East Germany, the fall of the communist states, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Terms that may pass over in history books, but they carry dozens of questions: What really happened? How did families who found themselves on opposite sides, divided between opposing ideas and warring countries, live? What does it mean to live in a country that suddenly disappears, and the enemy becomes part of the homeland?
The first thing Maxim Leo learned was to refrain from any questions, even about his family history. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he too decides to break the wall of silence in order to understand what really happened there, with his family, with his grandparents, with his parents, and with himself. To answer the most difficult question: What was so important that it made us strangers to each other even today?
.. اعتنى الكثير من المؤرخين بترجمة سيرة الصحابي الجليل «أبو بكر الصديق» فلم يعد هناك الكثير مما يقال عنها، وقد أدرك العقاد هذا الأمر فجاء كتابه عن الصديق مختلفًا؛ فقدم دراسة نفسية تحليلية لشخصية الصديق ليتعرف على صفاته وسماته الشخصية ويستنبط بواعث سلوكه، فيسوق العقاد الأخبار والحوادث التاريخية لا ليعرضها هي نفسها بل ليضع يده على مفاتيح شخصية الخليفة الأول من خلال تعاطيه مع الأحداث وتعامله مع الناس. كما يقترب من بيئته وحياته قبل الإسلام وبعده وظروف إسلامه، ثم يعقد المقارنة بينه وبين «عمر بن الخطاب» ليظهر الفروقات بين شخصياتهما وطباعهما، كما يقدم جوانب من إدارته لشئون الخلافة في الدولة الإسلامية الوليدة وكيف تصرف تجاه الأزمات التي كادت أن تعصف بها.
