The four of us lived in a rather narrow room, with a roof that served as a filter in the winter for the rainwater received by the carefully distributed bowls and utensils. It was rented to us by an obese widow in her forties. She was a cold woman with a sharp tongue, but she did not increase the price of our rent, fortunately for us. ..
Then the fire came and consumed everything.
The objects... the rooms... the building... and even the fat Mrs. Afaf, who has a foul-mouthed tongue!
We were looking at the scene with sad faces. The firefighters, with their old equipment and their late arrival, were unable to save anything, and no one moved to help the miserable widow due to the ferocity of the fire that occurred through her negligence, as we learned later.
We gathered in the café at a small circular table to think about a solution to the problem we found ourselves in.
- “We leave...”
Siwar said it after a deafening silence, then Kahf nodded his head in support and said with a smile:
- There is no escape, there is no other solution.
While (Herbak) remained silent as usual, so I did the same. I trusted their opinion and considered him to be the decisive factor. He did not trust his personal judgments much when we were together, so his opinion was my opinion..
كلما تقدم العالم كلما ازدادت صعوبة عيش حياة تقوم على الحب والرحمة. الى الآن… يجسد هذا البرنامج الاستثنائي تألق الدكتور هوكينز المذهل وروح الدعابة المعدية والفهم العميق للسير في طريق اليقظة كمواطن في العالم.
An overview of the book: Exit from the Gate of the Past to Success
They are old stations that I passed through one day that created my future
But first, I must find the key to enter through this old gate, but with your help, and I will not enter it alone. You will be with me, and I will take you through these stations.
Beautiful memories are like a flock of birds that cannot be caught, but you can enjoy them passing in front of you
In order to live a more beautiful reality, we must realize what happened in the past and make it a gateway to our success and distinction and employ old lessons in new situations.
I also hope that by writing this book that I have made available to everyone so that everyone who has experienced loss or nostalgia for the past or a specific place can benefit from it, success and hope despite all circumstances are not impossible, and I want to show people how short life is.
Life is a beautiful novel. You should read it until the end. Never stop at a sad line. The ending may be beautiful.
Zainab and Ahmed are two children who were separated from sharing school seats by Zainab’s move with her family to Ankara, and her boyfriend staying in Istanbul. The letters became their way of maintaining their friendship by exchanging funny stories, daily adventures, and discussing the oddities of the adult world: adults’ confusion in front of their managers, and parents’ desperation to showcase their children’s talents. “The wonderful ones” in front of the guests, and the parents’ insistence that they were all outstanding, obedient, honest, and of course the top of their class.
In this novel written for children, parents, and teachers alike, Aziz Nesin reconstructs events from the perspective through which children see the world, judging the behavior of adults and the double standards they live under. Like his always controversial books, the book - this time - provokes adults by revealing their image in the eyes of their children, thus asking: What happens to children when they grow up?
