Rabbits emerge from jacket sleeves, a car fixes a shed instead of a pole, and medical cotton speaks and makes sounds; These are some of the daily observations mixed with audio-visual hallucinations, narrated by a young drug addict, through a group of separate, connected short stories that describe the image of a world in which wakefulness and sleep are mixed, and reality and imagination.
In these stories, everything moves slowly, and the world is seen through a blur; As for death, it seems like a joke, even the feelings become numb; So that one laughs when one should cry.
Without lacking a sense of humor and bitter banter, Dennis Johnson presents in this collection an honest testimony about the lives of young addicts in the United States of America, and despite all the laughter and smiles generated by the book’s funny characters with their jokes and behavior, perhaps the reader will wonder at the end: Why does he feel this way? All sadness? It is a book written in the mouth of addicts, not about them, and describes their alienation and their connection with the world that is gradually fading.
We are a generation without farewell, says the German writer Wolfgang Borchert, summarizing the tragedy of his generation that was led into World War II without anyone saying goodbye to it. Perhaps Borchert is the voice most capable of expressing this generation, and that war that left massive material and spiritual devastation in Germany. It also left literary ruin.
Borchert left behind a collection of short stories that his fellow Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Heinrich Böll, describes as “complete masterpieces,” while Egyptian writer Ibrahim Aslan sees in his stories “a sublime expression of the ferocity of all wars without a single direct word.”
In this book, we present to the reader a selection of these stories, and what attracted us to them is the human approach to major topics, such as war and death, love and the feeling of loss, and the artistic expression of them.
تتحدث القصه عن " صغيره " الفتاة التي تعيش بالخارج لإكمال دراستها تتخرج و تعود إلى الكويت لتسكن مع شقيقها الأكبر في منزله تتوالى الأحداث و تنتقل إلى السكن
About the book:
This book is entitled (Clear Cracks):
It is a collection of short stories inspired by real family life
In the United Arab Emirates, in addition to it includes some messages
Guidance, and guiding stances taken from the events of his realistic stories,
And its different personalities, and its various circumstances, some of which came as a message
On the lips of the heroes of these stories, and some of them came as pauses for reflection
Through the writer’s experience and work in family counseling, expressing her opinion in presenting
Advice and guidance for the reader everywhere.
Salary deposited:
The book deals with the memoirs of an employee, where the challenges related to working life and the mechanisms for dealing with them are listed. It is considered one of the inspiring memoirs that, in addition to the narrative narration, presents the scientific side of human resources. It also presents the practical side that derives its strength from the writer’s experience and vision. This is done through 31 thoughts that represent 31 days, which is the period related to the employee’s eligibility for salary.
