Aguilar realizes that something irreparable has happened to his wife as soon as he enters the hotel room where she is staying. He tries to discover the identity of the man who was with her, and to find out what specifically happened that put her in this strange state, but he discovers how little he knows about the deep turmoil hidden in the past of this woman, who found that her only weapon was to build her own world and withdraw behind the thick walls of madness.
Through a revolving narrative, Colombian writer Laura Restrepo enters the minds of four characters, trying to reveal their contradictions, their stormy lives, their turmoil, and their intimate details, charmingly intertwining violence, crime, love, and loyalty.
“Delirium,” which won the Alphaguara Prize in 2004, is a novel that, through the succession of voices it narrates, will immerse you in vortexes of delirium, too.
كل أبٍ وأمٍّ يرغبان في إسعاد أطفالهما وتفادي إفساد حياتهم. ولكن ما هو السبيل إلى ذلك؟ في هذا الكتاب المفيد والممتع، تتناول المعالجة النفسية المعروفة فيليبا بيري المسائلَ الجوهرية في تربية الأطفال. وعوضاً عن تقديم أسلوب «مثالي» في التربية، تقدم صوّرة شاملة عن مكوّنات العلاقة الصحيّة بين الطفل ووالديه.
So we don't forget Corona:
A detailed narrative narration about our lives that we were living peacefully in this world before the Corona crisis, and then suddenly the conditions of the entire world changed from one state to another, and they tended to make different commitments, which were previously rejected, and people were forced to accept them in their current time. This book talks about realistic stories of life and its forms and how we lived it and the whole world lived it at the time of the Corona crisis that struck the world in the year 2020 AD, and the year 2021 AD, which correspond to 1441 AH and 1442 of the Hijri year. All the details of that life, the injuries, people’s dealings with them, and how we watched and observed the positions of peoples, countries, and everyone during this period. It is a book that speaks to those who will come after us and describes to them what our situation was like during this period.
Moving between Zabaltani, Dawaila, Saydnaya, and all the way to Istanbul, Ahmed Aswad - a tailor on a sewing machine - tells the story of his life as it appears to him, a life full of transformations and first experiences: the beginning of falling in love, traveling, and planning a murder.
In a special language that may seem neutral, but it is sarcastic and full of emotion, Wassim Al-Sharqi explores forgotten corners of the lives of a marginalized segment of Syrians before 2011, such as: smugglers on the Lebanese border, or sewing factory workers, and patrons of bodybuilding clubs and bars in old Damascus.
“Black” is a journey to delve into the motivations and drivers that direct people’s behavior and destinies, and an attempt to trace the source of the blackness that surrounds our lives and settles in our souls, difficult to disappear.