On Animal Farm, the horse Boxer believes everything he is told, and works hard day and night. This pure naivety paves the way for evil people to rule our world. Naivety is not infallible. Gullibility must be accompanied by intelligence, knowledge, caution and foresight. This is wisdom. To be wise, you must know evil and see it clearly, and you must also be naive enough to believe in your ability to resist it. Through his collection of stories, Uday Al-Zoubi seeks to raise a question about the limits of wisdom, and its relationship with naivety. Foolish, unwise naivety, and evil, unnaive wisdom, almost dominate our world, spreading confusion and darkness and making the world a dangerous, ambiguous mixture of things, ideas, and stories.
Jeremy visits the island of Mauritius, to investigate his family history, and search for the last traces of the extinct dodo bird. His journey intersects with an opposite journey undertaken by Dominic, a tramp who was born to laugh, as he says about himself. Between the two journeys, stories reproduce and multiply, and as the narrative progresses, the world of Alma is built, which modern times have transformed into “Maya Land”: a land of illusions.
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