A man who believed in me:
Arwa stands in front of the door of her house after returning from Britain to spend the summer vacation with her family. She is surprised that her father does not know her and does not remember her name. So she tries in various ways to save her father after he was afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. In it, she explains the internal suffering that a person feels with this disease that destroys the cerebellum and makes him... A white sheet of paper free of all small details.
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?
هي رواية خيالية بطلها شاب من قرية البهو فريك يجد نفسه يوما في أرض لا تتعامل بالنقود كسائر البشر، وبدل ذلك وحدات الذكاء فكل عمل مقابل مال في أرضنا يعادل هناك قيمة معينة من وحدات الذكاء.
Twenty years have passed since the end of World War II. A foreign man returns to the German city of Dresden to visit a friend. But instead of his friend, he meets a twenty-year-old girl who works in a new hotel, and a long night-time conversation takes place between a man who spent the last two years of the war in that city, and survived the devastating bombing and Nazi concentration camps, recalling all the pain and tragedies he experienced, and a girl from the next generation. The war, whose horrors he did not know or experienced, is trying to live with a legacy burdened by the crimes and atrocities of his fathers.
"I can't help you, my little love. It's your fight and you have to fight it alone. No one's going to help you, not even me."
In late October, a writer specializing in the lives of saints gives a lecture in a remote northern Swedish village. After the lecture ends, an old man approaches her to tell her that she will stay with him for the night.
Her stay with him is prolonged due to a snow storm that cuts off the road, during which she learns more about the life of her host Hadar, who suffers from cancer, and the strange competition that links him with his brother and neighbor Ulf, who suffers from heart disease.
About two brothers who share a lot in common and are linked by a tangled relationship of jealousy, rivalry, guilt, and a strange guest who becomes the engine of this relationship, Torgny Lindgren tells with dark irony in his Auguste Prize-winning novel, Sweetness, a different story about brotherhood.
