Owned houses and others are rented, fleeting and temporary dwellings, between which the writer moves across different Syrian cities, turning the houses into stations, or rest stops that allow her to contemplate the context of her life, her choices, and the source of her desire to remain between closed doors. The subjective nature of the book turns it into a kind of personal testimony, but Nour Abu Farraj is betting that her memories may intersect to a large degree with the experiences of middle-class young men and women from the 1980s generation in Syria, who lived a relatively stable life, before the war came and made a difference in their context. Forcibly expel them from their safe spaces.
In the face of the transience and uncertainty that war brings, description becomes a tribute to the fleeting; This is why the book tries to remind readers of the long time it takes to build a house, in the symbolic or structural sense, but it nonetheless warns them against becoming captives to the place, and encourages them to carry their homes as souvenirs, or small luggage on their long journey.
لقد أصبحنا وحدنا أخيرا .. أنا وأنت .. أخيرا انفردت بك .. وصرت أملكك .. وأملك عينيك .. في كل مرة تنظر فيها إلى كلماتي .. و تقرأ فيها سطوري .. ستكون هذه هي آخر رواية ستقرأها لي في حياتك .. فأنا على شفا حفرة من الموت .. ولم يتبق لي في هذه الحياة إلا سويعات لا أدري عددها .. لكنني أعرف أنها قليلة .. وبرغم ذلك فهي كافية لأسقيك بما أريد أن أسقيك إياه من الحديث. قبل أن أبدأ أقول لك .. يجب أن تقرأ هذا الكتاب وتحرقه .. فسيحاولون التخلص منه ومن كل من قرأه .. كما فعلوا مع كل الكتب التي شابهته
I committed a crime:
It is a collection of stories that talk about excerpts from situations that occurred in our reality, and each story has a different type of crime from the other.
And each story symbolizes a specific thing, or something that might cause something to break inside you?
“In this book there are six stories that are different from the others. Come and learn with me about the types of crimes in our real lives.”
"يقدم مهند الوادية بكتابه "تملك العقارات" تذكيرا واضحا لملاك ومدراء العقارات بمدى أهمية التفكير خارج النطاق التقليدي، حيث يوضح بابتكار وبطريقة عملية في كتابه
