In late October, a writer specializing in the lives of saints gives a lecture in a remote northern Swedish village. After the lecture ends, an old man approaches her to tell her that she will stay with him for the night.
Her stay with him is prolonged due to a snow storm that cuts off the road, during which she learns more about the life of her host Hadar, who suffers from cancer, and the strange competition that links him with his brother and neighbor Ulf, who suffers from heart disease.
About two brothers who share a lot in common and are linked by a tangled relationship of jealousy, rivalry, guilt, and a strange guest who becomes the engine of this relationship, Torgny Lindgren tells with dark irony in his Auguste Prize-winning novel, Sweetness, a different story about brotherhood.
The book tells the story of seventeen-year-old John, who suffers from autism. His parents see the good in him, but the surrounding world only sees his faults.
John often made mistakes and always misunderstood things. He tries to fulfill the requests of the people around him to gain their satisfaction.
It is a tough period of development, bordering on isolation and difficulties at school.
John falls into the trap of his rivals and commits aggressive acts that lead him to decline.
But who bears John's fate?
Animal Friends is a poignant and transparent novel about isolation and vulnerability. Depicts the nostalgia and connections that can bind vulnerable people to each other.
The horizons of storytelling integrate like small overlapping circles, forming a tight narrative world.
this book There are many questions that the novel “Arival... Coming from afar” attempts to answer through the character of “Salem,” the Arab Bedouin who comes to this society from the past, carrying the heritage and culture of the Arabs. He travels through time for a thousand years to discover facts and matters that he believes are taken for granted today, customs, methods, and traditions that spread without the guards of awareness, only to find official support from ignorance. The comparison between two societies separated by a thousand years begins, and Salem's eyes reveal moral decline and the fragility of family ties.
It is true that the joke has its own literature and rules in funny literature, but it is also true that it has deep roots in the lives of peoples that determine its general framework. By virtue of its targeting of a people, a sect of it, or an unknown or known person within it, it takes its general and current form, crystallized from “humorous” types. “It suits the era in which it was found, and it can be said: The general context of what is funny and what makes us sad does not change, but what changes is the mechanism of receiving them.
Al-Homsi, as one of the prominent figures in contemporary humorous literature, was targeted from the beginning and labeled a fool. Indeed, Ibn al-Jawzi classified him among “the absolute fools and fools.” Accordingly, the jokes were focused on the people of Homs later. For your information, what marked the people of Homs was created by important historical events that the city experienced.
Homs has fought a humorous ideological war throughout its history. This work examines the roots of the Homs joke without entering into an analysis of the jokes told about the people of Homs, except what is necessary to point out.
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