The missing painting:
A novel that presents the difficult times the world faced during the Corona crisis. Although its characters are pure imagination, they can be projected onto reality, as it exposes many of the scenes that accompanied the Corona pandemic, and the internal and global reactions to it. As for the hero of the novel, Dr. Suhail, It is an example of hundreds of heroes who gave their lives, including medical staff, in more than one place, in the face of the pandemic.
The novel begins with Dr. Suhail, who loves drawing in addition to his professional work as a doctor. While he was drawing a painting that he wanted to participate in an art exhibition, in fulfillment of his dream of becoming a famous painter, but the Corona pandemic attacked him, as is the case with the whole world, so he rushed to his work, mobilizing to confront the Corona virus, but Fate hastened him, while he was in the midst of the confrontation with the virus, to die a martyr, and then his wife fulfilled his last wish, to be a famous artist, so she completed, with the help of his son, that painting that he had begun twenty years after his passing, while offering the price of the painting in a public auction to the needy in the name of her late husband, in appreciation and in memory of him. For his name.
About the novel:
The novel belongs to the doctrine of absurdity, as it tends towards black comedy, and in general it paints rich and diverse pictures of a group of characters that are united by the whole neighborhood of Sleep.
The novel presents various stories from the nineties in one of the neighborhoods of the Gulf, and the psychological changes that its people experienced, realistic events, and a fateful war.
The heroes of the novel are a random sample of simple people who lived in the writer’s imagination. He tried to dissect their relationship with each other and also their relationships with others.
Sami Al-Khelaifi.
