An overview of the book (The Heart and the Change by Al-Asma’i, Study and Compilation)
This book is concerned with collecting the texts of the lost book (The Heart and the Change by Al-Asma’i), through extrapolation of the Arabic linguistic heritage, relying on strict standards and controls in selecting these texts, and arranging and organizing them according to a solid scientific approach. To be close to the image that the author left, may God have mercy on him, it is preceded by a detailed study of the author and the author. It is accompanied by technical indexes to serve the reader. Contributing to bringing out a treasure of that heritage, most of which was lost for various reasons. And to revive the legacy of a unique science of linguists who had a great impact on this blessed language.
After his return to the island, Manuel decides to dig into the past to recover the details of the murder of the man he adopted. He also tries to get to know more about the wife of Khatha, the mysterious man whom he had only met briefly, but who left a great impression on him. “Khitha,” the absent man, is the most present in the novel, and his presence will change the fate of the lives of its characters, including his wife, who irrevocably left her previous life and went on to rediscover herself after her meeting with him.
In the novel “Soldiers Cry at Night,” Anna Maria Matute attempts to experiment with new narrative methods based on mixing the narrators’ voices so that the speech of all the characters seems, in one way or another, to be one continuous dialogue. The dense, highly sensitive and delicate spectrum of characters in this novel will continue to haunt the reader and motivate him to re-read the book, which ended prematurely, leaving many outstanding questions.
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