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?”
The most amazing thing about this story is that it is true! Not only because of the strangeness of its events, as the Renaissance era is rich in wondrous adventures, but the reason for its strangeness is the almost complete forgetting of it. The two orphan children: Ghost and Columb are deceived; To participate in a colonial mission to explore the new world, as it is their only hope of meeting their father, the disappeared knight. This forgotten expedition is led by Philoganion, a warrior returning from the Crusades, bringing with him a diverse team of soldiers, workers, engineers, as well as an unprecedented element; Children of orphan age, the age that allows them to learn new languages quickly enough; To work as translators with the indigenous people. On one of the most mysterious and exciting French campaigns of the Renaissance, and through the story of two orphans searching for hope and the human struggles they go through, in his book, which won the Goncourt Prize, Ruffin takes us on a captivating historical journey from the shores of France at the beginning of the era of religious unrest to Brazil with its red woods. To describe to us man's struggle with nature, and the first encounter between different civilizations, with the curiosity, fear, admiration, and passion it carries.
In the late seventeenth century, Poncet, a French herbalist, travels; To live in Cairo, one of the centers of an unusual alliance between the Ottoman Sultanate and one of the European kingdoms: France. Although he works in secret, Because he does not have a legal certificate, his fame reaches the French consul, in whom he finds the ideal person to lead a secret embassy from the French king to the Negus, King of Abyssinia, whose declared mission is to treat the Negus, while it seeks to restore French-Catholic control over Abyssinia, in a time of religious and expansionist conflicts. Which the European kingdoms are fighting among themselves. Poncet soon discovers that the exceptional circumstances of his journey to achieve the goals of the King of France and the Pope are - alone - the solution to the exceptional obstacles that separate him from the one he loves. In his work, which won the Goncourt Prize for First Novel and the Mediterranean Prize, Ruffin does not content himself with presenting historical facts, but rather takes us with him on a journey full of life between the neighborhoods of Cairo, the mountains of Abyssinia, and the palaces of France. To tell an exciting adventure about love, friendship, and sacrifice in an era full of conflicts, conspiracies, and betrayals.
After the death of his father, Geronimo Frank, the scion of a wealthy Austrian banking family, decides to break from his family's traditions and move to live on a small island in the Adriatic Islands, and to reopen the large store there. Despite the tragic legend associated with the marriage of the previous store owner, which befell the new owner, He succeeds in preparing for marriage to the most beautiful girl on the island, Alia Aymar. During the preparation for this legendary wedding, Rino Kubita, the young revolutionary and son of the island's popular hero, becomes aware of the existence of arrangements for an Austrian invasion of this island, so he organizes a resistance squad to kill the invading soldiers. Between the preparations for the wedding of the century, as described by the islanders, and the fluctuating feelings of Alia Emar, who loves music, and the anticipation of some of the islanders for the retaliatory invasion of the dead soldiers, Scarmita narrates in his charming and sarcastic style about the preparation of an entire continent for world war, and about a strange asylum journey to the safe paradise, Chile.
Rosario receives a bullet while she is receiving a kiss, this is how Jorge Franco begins his novel, and in those moments that Rosario spends suspended between love and death, the narrator tells us the story of a strange and mysterious love that he lived on one side with her, recalling with remarkable movements the past of “Rosario,” or rather what he was able to know from her past. She was the one who grew up in the city of Medellin, where there were weapons, crime, and poverty, and she used scissors as a tool to carry out all her crimes until they became close to her name. In quick and intense flashes, the writer draws the features of an unpredictable, mysterious character who kills his victims in cold blood while imprinting the kiss of death on their lips. When he does this, he does not reveal everything, but rather provokes the reader’s imagination, inviting him to participate in completing the picture.
"Chanca", "Texcacal", and "Chon Bum" are three cities in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula that enjoyed great religious importance during the class war waged by the Mayas against the Spanish colonizers. The religious importance of these cities is due to their being centers of the phenomenon of speaking crosses. In this wonderful book, the French writer (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008) tells, with great poetry, about his observations in these towns, in a captivating style. The trees, the water, the wind, the forests, the sky, and the earth, all of them become humanized in Le Clezio’s writing, as He has a unique ability to transform nature and its elements into vibrant, sensual things.
Following the Pinochet coup, which overthrew President Salvador Allende, thousands of Chilean families emigrated to escape the new regime, including the Lucho family, who headed to Germany. For his parents, time stopped the moment he left Chile, waiting for the moment of return, and the world was divided into two parts: the lost homeland, and the remaining countries, and like an entire generation that refuses to accept what happened, they sank into (ghettos) of sadness; Europe was offering them lungs of freedom, but it was also inflicting on them the pain of distance. As for Lucho, Germany was a different country full of what was worth living: he had daily challenges in the street and school to live, new cultures to discover, friendships, enmities, quarrels, and the first heartbeats he had to experience; All this without forgetting his inherited duty towards his motherland. About the obsessions of asylum, failures, dreams, and disappointments, Scarmetta leaves his teenage hero to tell his story, presenting us with a charming model of friendship, companionship, and the struggle for justice.
By Yusra Mardini/ Translated by: Ibrahim Al-Qaadouni
Since her childhood, Yusra Mardini’s dream was to become a professional swimmer and represent Syria in Olympic sports tournaments, but the intensification of the battles in Damascus in 2015 reduced her dream to just survival. Like tens of thousands of Syrians dreaming of living in peace, Yusra set off with her sister Sarah, and some of their relatives, on the terrible asylum journey to Europe, carrying with them their dreams of a safe life and resuming professional swimming, but in the middle of the trip between Turkey and Greece, the rubber boat’s engine stopped working. Work, and the boat loaded with passengers began to sink, and despite their many attempts to call for help, no one responded to them. Seventeen-year-old Yusra, her sister, and some other passengers jumped off the boat. To lose weight, they swam with it until they reached Greece, after which the sisters continued their dangerous journey overland to Germany. From swimming to save her life and the lives of her friends, to swimming with a dream of an Olympic medal, Yusra tells her extraordinary story from a refugee fleeing a war-torn country to an Olympian in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. ***** Yousra, we could not be more proud of you for your courage, your ability to resist difficulties, and for the wonderful example you set for children everywhere. Former US President Barack Obama
Some of them call it (the service of knowledge), and some of them call it (the compulsory service), but the truest name for it is the name given to it by the public: (compulsory). Compulsory, no matter how much they cover it with national cellophane, will remain one of the heaviest experiences that a person goes through. He will live a long time and die, and the heavy feeling that there is a gun on his shoulder will never disappear.
The two brothers, Helmy and Diaa, work in a car repair shop, while their mother works as a dancer in a nightclub. Every day, when she goes out to work, one of the brothers disguises herself in her clothes to imitate her, and exercises the same dominance over the other with which she treats them. In a theatrical text based on the play “The Maids” by the French writer Jean Genet, and taking place in the poor post-war neighborhoods of Damascus, Zain Saleh raises the questions that an entire generation suffers from about power, family, asylum, and gender.
During her childhood, Mehrnoush and her siblings lived a luxurious and carefree life, and her family’s happiness was complete with the departure of the Shah, against whom her parents had fought. However, subsequent political transformations and the recruitment of children in the Iran-Iraq war prompted her parents to flee Iran. To protect their children. In 1986, a radioactive leak occurred at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, causing the neighboring city of Paribat to turn into a ghost town abandoned by its people. However, this event, which sparked international concern and popular solidarity around the world, was only passing news on television. During her childhood, Mehrnoush and her siblings lived a luxurious and carefree life, and her family’s happiness was complete with the departure of the Shah, against whom her parents had fought. However, subsequent political transformations and the recruitment of children in the Iran-Iraq war prompted her parents to flee Iran. To protect their children. In 1986, a radioactive leak disaster occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, causing the neighboring city of Paribat to turn into a ghost town abandoned by its people. But this event, which sparked international concern and popular solidarity around the world, was only passing news on television for the little girl, Mehrnoush. She and her family had immediately found their new home after their bitter refugee journey. Nearly thirty years later, Mehrnoush tells her story, juxtaposing the two most important events of her childhood: public anxiety over the nuclear disaster that caused thousands to lose their homeland, and the epic journey her family went through: escaping from Isfahan, periods of despair in Turkey, and getting lost in East Germany, until... Their arrival to their new home in West Germany; A new window on life opened for her, as if millions of colorful butterflies had entered through it. As for Mehrnoush, the child, who and her family had immediately obtained their new home after a bitter refugee journey. Nearly thirty years later, Mehrnoush tells her story, juxtaposing the two most important events of her childhood: public anxiety over the nuclear disaster that caused thousands to lose their homeland, and the epic journey her family went through: escaping from Isfahan, periods of despair in Turkey, and getting lost in East Germany, until... Their arrival to their new home in West Germany; A new window on life opened for her, as if millions of colorful butterflies had entered through it
Influenced by the dream of a utopia and the ideas of the French philosopher Capet in his book “The Journey to Ikaria,” the two friends Plutz and Wagner embark on a journey to the New World, to participate in building the ideal society there, but they are separated upon their return in conjunction with the tremendous changes that Europe is witnessing at the beginning of the century. Twenty years ago, while Plotz immersed himself in realizing the Nazi dreams of building an ideal society; To become one of the figures in the theories of eugenics and racial cleansing, Wagner isolates himself from life. He works secretly in a library that hides banned books. Despite the estrangement between them, their destinies meet again after the fall of the Third Reich. Because of a mission, Hanzen sends the American officer; To discover the secrets of Plutz's life, by interrogating that friend who accompanied him for long periods of his life. Through the secrets revealed in lengthy conversations between book lovers, and the memoirs of a victorious officer in his defeated home country, Ova Tim - in his novel Ikaria - monitors the extent to which people may descend in their quest to build the ideal society.
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.
After Macendall escapes and is pursued, he takes advantage of the strange abilities with which he has been endowed, taking on the appearance of different animals, taking advantage of his talent to move instantly from one place to another, and because of the belief of his contemporaries in him, he encourages with this magic the most dramatic and strange uprisings in history. A complete mythology remains of Macendal, accompanied by magical chants that are memorized by all the people, and are still sung in Voodoo ceremonies. In this novel, Alejo Carpentier draws inspiration from this mythology from a series of extremely strange events that occurred in Haiti, in a specific era that does not extend to a short human life, and he presents them through the character of “T. Noel,” who finally realizes how a person can find his greatness and his maximum extent. In the kingdom of this world.
"This is freedom. It is a winter thing that cannot be tolerated for long. In it one must constantly move, as we do now. In freedom one must dance, it is cold and beautiful. But do not fall in love with it, because this will make you very sad later. A person only exists in the areas of freedom for moments, and no more. We have crossed the limit now. Look at the wonderful path on which we are skating, how it is slowly dissolving. You can now see freedom dying. When you open your eyes, this will be a haunting scene The heart is yours many times.” ***** Walser treats language in this novel with as much respect as one would treat a revered and close friend at the same time. Hermann Hesse "Jacob von Gonten" involves a kind of parody of the traditional educational novel. Christopher Middleton
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