My childhood was a bit strange, and I believe that I was suffering from a type of autism, and the disease was not known at that time in our simple environment and surroundings, as I did not speak to anyone at that time, not because I was unable, but because I did not want to, and I believed that I was a bird and not a human being. .
. يعد هذا الكتاب من أهم الأعمال الروائية في الأدب العربي المعاصر، وقد حقق نجاحًا كبيرًا في الوطن العربي. يتناول الكتاب قصة حياة شاب يحمل اسم خالد والذي يعاني من مشاكل نفسية واجتماعية، ويجد نفسه في مواجهة مشكلات كثيرة في حياته.
In the thirties of the twentieth century, the writer Agatha Christie came from London to the city of Amuda in Syria, where she lived with her husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan, for a period of time, and there she wrote her diary, “Come Tell Me How You Live,” in which she narrated pictures of her adventures in life in Syria and Iraq. .
After less than a hundred years, Haitham Hussein was forced to emigrate from his small city of Amuda to Damascus and from there to multiple stops: Dubai, Beirut, Cairo, and Istanbul, all the way to London, where he wrote his biography, responding to Agatha Christus about how he lives, and in which he depicts the paradoxes of his journey to search for a safe haven. For him and his family.
ولستُ أول مَن اختار المتاعبَ في حارتنا، كان بوُسع جبل أن يبقى في وظيفته عند الناظر، وكان بوُسع رفاعة أن يصير نجارَ الحارة الأول، وكان في وُسع قاسم أن يهنأ بقمر وأملاكها، وأن يعيش عيشةَ الأعيان، ولكنهم اختاروا الطريقَ الآخَر.»