The novel tells the events and details of the period of Ottoman rule at the moment of its collapse. As well as the echoes of the dangerous transformation at the gates of World War I. The heroes are Jamal Pasha and his Jewish lover, Sarah, surrounded by tough men, spies, adventurous officers, and wandering soldiers seeking to push the Arabs, who live in the bitterness of nostalgia of the past, out of their land, their history, and their era.
Khaled is a young man in his thirties who graduated from the College of Fine Arts. He failed to travel from his city of “fairies,” which was closing in on him from all sides, so he had no choice but to work as an employee in a bookstore, through which he practiced an additional, secret job in which he sold his works of fiction. Life would have gone better if one could keep the secret, but as Faraj, Khaled’s father, says: “No matter how much you hide it, the secret will wake up inside you one day, and then it will continue to burrow into your soul until it is released to the world.” Thus, Khaled’s choices in life soon put him in the face of “Khalil Nayef,” a lawyer with wide influence who wants to enter the world of writing.
Within a suspenseful context and a rapid pace, Tamim Heneidi dives into the scenes of the relationships between writers, publishers, and bookstore owners, and sheds light on the way in which culture may be used to polish the image of the political class created by the war. But can books perform a task like this?
يقدّم الكتاب فلسفة حنان السماك عن السعادة بأبهى صورها، في قالب مشبّع بالقيم والمبادئ التي تمكّن الإنسان من التوجه نحو حياة ملؤها الرضا، الأمل، والتوازن ما يتضمن أحدث الممارسات القائمة على علم النفس الإيجابي، ويقدّم تقنيات وتمارين مفيدة لتعزيز التفكير الإيجابي وتنمية مهارة المعيشة بسعادة
