In the beginning, there was a confession of an unintentional murder of a victim who suddenly disappeared from sight, from a girl who was known in the neighborhood for her kind heart and love of volunteer and charitable work. After that, the victim appeared and there were 3 criminals who committed the same crime.
The police thought it was a murder with intent to steal, and after that they discovered the victim's diabolical intentions towards his stepdaughter who had run away 5 years ago, and then that call that solved the mystery of the case.
What connects criminals? Is it a relationship of feelings? Or an exchange of interests? Of course the brilliant investigator and the officer's brilliant deductions brought together the threads of evidence.
((في أعماق كل إنسان تختبئ إرادة القوة، تنتظر ساعة الإفراج. حين تمنحه السلطة، يبرز وجهه, الحقيقي: إما أن يرتقي فوق الجموع، فيصبح خالقاً لقيم جديدة، أو ...
Misfortunes befall the Levant Sharif, the birth of strange children increases, drought and poverty prevail, and the attempt of Ibrahim Pasha and the apostles of the French Revolution who joined him to overthrow the state of the Ottoman Sultan is nothing but a sign of the imminent arrival of Satan, as the religious extremists see, trying to preserve the Levant Sharif, fighting the creation Newspapers and comics that encourage obscenity.
All of this is happening outside, while Arwa sneaks into Bernardo’s house and messes with a strange drawing of a complete being, carrying both masculinity and femininity.
In an interesting plot that combines imagination with history, myth, and folktales, Khairy Al-Dhahabi tries to read the effects of the French campaign in Syria, and monitors the return of theater to the Levant, discussing many problematic issues: myth, masculinity and femininity, and the Damascene people killing those who are gay among them.
... "وبعد… فهذا خِتامُ ما كتبَهُ "شمعون بن زخاري"، والملقب بشَمْعون المَصْري، عن أخبارِ بني إسرائيل في برية سين، وما كان من أمرِهم منذ عبور البحر وحتى وفاة موسى بن عمران. وأعلم أني ما كتبت في هذه الرقاع إلا أحَدَ أمرين، أمر شهدته بعيني أو أمر سمعته من رجل من الرجال الثِّقات. وأُشِهد الربَّ (إيل)، أني ما بغيْتُ بهذا الكتاب مجدًا ولا شرفًا، وإنما إظهار شهادتي على جيل من شعب بني إسرائيل، اصطفاه الله وأنجاه بمعجزة من عدوِّه، ثم غضب عليه وأهلكه في تلك البرية القفراء، بعد أن أذاقه شقاء الارتحال ومرارة التيه. هذا كتاب لا أدري من سيكون قارئه، فأيًا من تكن أرجو أن تتذكر كاتب هذه الأبواب بالرحمة وأن تَدعو له بالغفران" شمعون بن زخاري بن رأوبين الملقب بشمعون المصري تم في الليلة الأخيرة من الشهر الثامن لسنة ستين بعد الخروج
Moving between the ancient markets of Aleppo and the bars of Berlin, the hero of the novel “Berlin Papers” rediscovers himself time after time, opens his hands to various experiences and new people, and listens closely waiting for someone to tell him a new story so that he can write it down. We see him escaping from a failed love story through exploration. The history of Germany in the two world wars: the first and the second, to get lost in memories, pictures, and maps, between western and eastern Aleppo and between western and eastern Berlin, and to flip through the paintings of the German painter Otto Dix, which embodied the ugliness of the First World War; In order to forget the images of destruction and killing that were preserved in his memory.
In his novel, Nihad Siris moves lightly between places, people, and events, within one flowing text, and his work hides behind a documentary character that explores the history of wars and city architecture, and then surprises the reader with an unexpected dose of imagination about marvels and supernatural powers that help people overcome the scourges of war by escaping towards... New beginnings.
Can a person escape from a war in his country by diving into the history of another war that took place in another time and place?
