After his return to the island, Manuel decides to dig into the past to recover the details of the murder of the man he adopted. He also tries to get to know more about the wife of Khatha, the mysterious man whom he had only met briefly, but who left a great impression on him. “Khitha,” the absent man, is the most present in the novel, and his presence will change the fate of the lives of its characters, including his wife, who irrevocably left her previous life and went on to rediscover herself after her meeting with him.
In the novel “Soldiers Cry at Night,” Anna Maria Matute attempts to experiment with new narrative methods based on mixing the narrators’ voices so that the speech of all the characters seems, in one way or another, to be one continuous dialogue. The dense, highly sensitive and delicate spectrum of characters in this novel will continue to haunt the reader and motivate him to re-read the book, which ended prematurely, leaving many outstanding questions.
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.
