The novel tells the events and details of the period of Ottoman rule at the moment of its collapse. As well as the echoes of the dangerous transformation at the gates of World War I. The heroes are Jamal Pasha and his Jewish lover, Sarah, surrounded by tough men, spies, adventurous officers, and wandering soldiers seeking to push the Arabs, who live in the bitterness of nostalgia of the past, out of their land, their history, and their era.
About the novel:
The novel belongs to the doctrine of absurdity, as it tends towards black comedy, and in general it paints rich and diverse pictures of a group of characters that are united by the whole neighborhood of Sleep.
The novel presents various stories from the nineties in one of the neighborhoods of the Gulf, and the psychological changes that its people experienced, realistic events, and a fateful war.
The heroes of the novel are a random sample of simple people who lived in the writer’s imagination. He tried to dissect their relationship with each other and also their relationships with others.
Sami Al-Khelaifi.
