"My gift for your birthday":
Christmas comes and our children are getting older, more mature, and more demanding. On this occasion, in particular, many mothers and fathers are confused about choosing the type of gift, its size, and its value. They often resort to buying “ordinary” gifts that may not live up to the highest meaning of the gift, which is to communicate to the child how important he is in our lives and how much we care about him.
Christmas has arrived, and here the hero of the story is wondering about the most precious gift he can give to his child, and here he is wondering in a beautiful monologue about the most precious gift that can be given to his child... so he begins to include a list of gifts that he considers to be the most expensive, between the possible and the impossible, the strangest and the most beautiful... to conclude that the best gift that can be given It is within his reach, as it is within the reach of every mother or father, and it is time.
A text that teaches the child as well as the parents that the value of the gift is not in money, but in the amount of time and love in which we share our daily interests between laughter, play, and seriousness..
Illustrator: Artist Amir Alaei - Iran - works for magazines and specialized publishing houses and is a painter and graphic designer.
Sofia is a bold and hot-tempered child, unlike her grandmother, who takes care of her after her mother's death.
Every summer, you go on a new adventure together of a different kind: exploring parts of the island you live on, meeting new types of birds, swimming in the dangerous bay without Sofia’s father knowing, sleeping in a tent, building a miniature model of Venice, and writing a book about insects. .
Without addressing their true feelings, they spend their days in endless conversations and discussions about everything: the meaning of life and death, the nature of God and Satan, heaven and hell, and the concepts of love, family, friendship, and tolerance.
By creating an integrated world on a small, isolated island, Tova Jansson writes - in a magical style, and simple sentences loaded with profound concepts - a sweet novel about the friendship between a child who begins her journey in life, and her grandmother, who is approaching the end of this journey.
كتاب تعرية النرجسي (التعايش والديمومة مع المستفرق بذاته) – ويندي بيهاري. «يتميز هذا الكتاب بأهميته وحسن توقيته، حيث تستقرئ فيه ويندي مدى تعقيد العيش مع شخص ...
About the novel.....
Rashid is a twenty-year-old young man, an orphan of parents. He grows up in the care of his aunt in Dubai. After his aunt’s death, he decides to return to his father’s house in a village in Fujairah. He brings workers to restore the old house and gets to know his neighbors in the village, and the father, Abdullah, and his granddaughter, Maryam.
Voices and ghosts begin to appear from the wall of the house, and each of them tells a story related to Rashid’s parents. The ghosts continue to appear and tell their stories, and Rashid becomes immersed in these stories, until the whole truth comes together about the death of his parents, the fire on his father’s farm, and the location of the treasure that was stolen, and the novel ends with his discovery. For the location of the treasure that Maryam’s father recovered and hid in a safe place until he found it, Rashid also searches for the real Maryam and marries her.
