واية يا بعده رواية عاطفية جرت أحداثها بين الشاب حمد، الذي أنهي دراسته في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، وتقدم لطلب يد الفتاة بسمة ابنة الجيران، وتتم الخطبة
"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.
The characters of this novel are searching for a different life. Some of them leave their work in the cotton factory and become sex workers in the hot springs resort, while one of them enters prison of his own accord in search of calm. A third goes to her hometown, discovering strange caves and tunnels, while a fourth chooses a refuge in A rural province, where Chinese herbs are used in traditional medicine.
These characters are intertwined in multiple emotional and physical relationships, while each of them seems like a mirror of the other, as the story of each of them begins where the previous one left off, in a fluid temporal structure.
In this novel, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, Tsun Shieh writes about the meaning of life in its relationship to love, sex, birthplace and work, and about the vanishing border between life and death, between wakefulness and sleep, in a blurry and turbulent plot full of sensual descriptions and vivid metaphors. , its aspects resonate with echoes of magical realism.
