Description
A sociopolitical novel
Al-Qusaibi is a traveler equipped with imagination, a conversational ability through which he launches to places, borders and times that know no borders, and the guide in his travels is an intellect that is aware of history, geography, meetings, diplomacy, subjugation, repercussions and above all Arabism as a science based on a living reality in the shadow of multifaceted hegemonies that extend its shadows from the beginning of history defined by the Hijri, Gregorian, Persian or Jewish calendars.
Al-Qusaibi starts spontaneously and freely, through monologues and dialogues in which he interrogates his interlocutor, to put on his tongue the concerns and issues that are inside him. Abu Shalakh goes on to recount his conversations and memoirs with the beginnings of his brilliance, then the stage of steadfastness and confrontation, Roosevelt's farewell, the “Um Seven” commercial empire, and the women in his life to reach his strange journey around the world and his discovery of the multiple sides of the moon, the interlocutor Yacoub Al-Mandhah, known as Abu Shalakh the Amphibian, travels the world East and West, North and South, meeting Hitler, Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Mao Tse-tung, he unveils secrets of the past, events, men and women, and as he travels in space, he travels in time, traversing the stages of the beginning of man with his means of transportation, the stone, to airplanes, missiles and the Internet.
Through him, Al-Quraibi reveals all the taboos, political, literary, social, because the poet has the right to what no one else has the right to, his characters are symbols, his phrases are symbols, his symbols are not like other symbols, the philosophy of life, the philosophy of the living, the philosophy of reality, and reality with its current philosophy, all of which passes lightly through Al-Quraibi's lines speaking with biting sarcasm that raise the kernels of Arab pain and human pain at times to repent it with smiles and giggles at other times, and why not, Al-Quraibi laughs slaughtered from the pain.
