Naif Market:
A novel that talks about the Naif region, between the past and the present, how it was and how it became, with its landmarks and its inhabitants. The Emirati novelist: Obaid Bu Melha documents some events, characters, and places in it and mixes them with the present using the technique of moving through time. He also embodies what happened and what is happening in terms of historical situations for those who lived in it.
The book is a story for children aged 12 to 15 years From the life, achievements and genius of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister, may God protect him... It combines science fiction... and the contemporary reality of His Highness’s achievements... and sheds light on the Emirates Space Project and the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Space Foundation and their most important achievements.
A university professor sees a painting in a museum in which a person very similar to his father is drawn, and he feels deeply that the resemblance does not stop at the symmetry of the two faces alone. A frightening intuition awakens within him, and he tries to meet a relative of the descendants of the man in the painting.
The novel's hero enters the maze of dream and wakefulness, and the maze of memory with its ramifications, evoking stories in which the real is mixed with the imaginary, and little by little we find that we are faced with several narratives, each one of which brings us into a new loss, until we ourselves become walking on the border between dream and wakefulness.
In “The Dark Bank,” José María Merino writes about the other or the companion, and about the past and memory, in a wonderful labyrinthine structure, within a vast time that lies on the margins of hours and pulses, and offers us pure pleasure that stimulates our imagination and senses.
