Years have passed since his absence, and Mamdouh Adwan had more. But death was no longer with him.
What has not been published before. We collect it today in this book.
Mamdouh Adwan left a file on his computer containing completed poems that he had prepared for publication, and other poems that he called incomplete poems.
Mamdouh did not give a title to the file. But he left it under the name (A Poet's Job).
(A Leap in the Air) is the title of a book that Mamdouh Adwan had prepared for publication.
But death forced him to complete this collection. Therefore, we at Dar Mamdouh Adwan decided to collect the poems that he wanted to publish and add to them some of the missing poems. Let us present to the reader some of his completed poems that have not been published, and other poems that he did not complete, but are open to the possibility of completion.
Cristina Fernandez Cubas does not introduce her heroines to us easily. She takes us on straight paths at first glance, and at one moment, she turns everything upside down. We discover that her characters are torn between two realities, the separation between which is very precise: the fixed reality, and the imagined or delusional reality. . One of them overpowers the other at times, and at other times a reconciliation occurs between them, without us knowing which of them truly exists, and which of them does not exist.
“Nona’s Room,” which won the Critics’ Prize in Spain (2015) and the National Narrative Award (2016), is a magnifying glass through which we see the complexities of the human soul and the mystery that surrounds our lives without us always succeeding in observing and understanding it. In it, “Cubas” reconsiders childhood and maturity. And loneliness and family, revealing to us that nothing is really as it seems, writing all of this in transparent language and in a unique style that gives it a detective touch, with skill and lightness.
((في أعماق كل إنسان تختبئ إرادة القوة، تنتظر ساعة الإفراج. حين تمنحه السلطة، يبرز وجهه, الحقيقي: إما أن يرتقي فوق الجموع، فيصبح خالقاً لقيم جديدة، أو ...