An ambitious mother passionate about medicine suffers and collapses from the transformations imposed by the totalitarian government’s control in all aspects of her social, political, and personal life, depriving her of her passion, identity, and even her desire for motherhood. A dreamy daughter attached to life lives under the care of her grandmother, because her mother often stays away from her. She lives in conflict in a society governed by fear of any difference, in which every desire for uniqueness becomes a crime that must be eliminated. Through the turbulent and volatile relationship between mother and daughter and the story of three generations of Latvian women during the Soviet control of their country, Nora Kstina tells a transparent story about motherhood, love, the desire to live, and hope.
The scent of narcissus
It is a collection of stories that carry within it the harvest of the years. I derived its ideas from my daily observations, experiences, and coexistence with my students and colleagues, but it is not related to a specific character, as I formulated it to be a general situation that sometimes overlaps with more than one experience and more than one character, as the reader will live with the woman who sacrifices... She gave her life for the sake of others in “The Handkerchief”, the oppressed girl in “Abeer”, the arrogant girl “Shatha Al-Narjis”, the struggling teacher “Professor Marzouk”, the unfaithful friend “In the Wind”, and honoring parents “The Moment of Birth” and the downtrodden employee “Skyscrapers”. There is a view into the past through the story “Bars of Silence.”
I wrote this collection during my participation in the Aqdar Writing Program, which was organized by the Ministry of Education two years ago. The Ministry of Education printed limited copies without signing a contract or monopoly on copyright, simply to publish examples of the program’s work during that period, and then we were left with the option of publishing it, as it received remarkable demand and was chosen. One of the secondary schools in Sharjah considered it the best publication last year, and given the insistence of my colleagues and students to obtain copies of it, especially the keenness of a large number of female students to search for it in the exhibition, and the disappointment that it was not published, prompted me to take this step and come to your home, which has become an edifice of the word and a door of culture. To publish my collection, I ask the Almighty God for success.
An immortal masterpiece, the largest and greatest literary work in the history of Italian literature, one of the hundred greatest books in human history, and the most printed, published and translated book after the holy heavenly books in the world... it is the “Divine Comedy.” A unique symbolic journey through otherworldly worlds undertaken by the greatest writers of the centuries Dante Alighieri, a symbol of sinful life, leads him to "Hell" and "Purgatory", then "Beatrice", a symbol of faith, leads him towards "Paradise"... It is a long and turbulent journey towards knowledge and faith, filled with symbols that have given it ambiguity, complexity, and brilliance in the eyes of readers, critics, and interpreters. Transferring all of humanity from a state of misery and misery to a state of happiness and contentment is one of the goals of our book, as stated by its author, by diving into the depths of history, recounting rich life experiences, and classifying people according to their deeds in their world, between hell, purgatory, and paradise, and through what the work contains. Philosophy, wisdom, morals and emotion. The strength of the structure, the strength of the style, and the interconnectedness of meanings are features that uniquely characterize this epic.
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