Meat for sale novel
(Black trade... among the streets of cursed markets)
A novel, Meat for Sale, whose heroine, journalist “Bashayer,” is interested in revealing everything that was hidden behind the curtain. She searches for the truth, especially human truths and their secrets. She searches for the unbearable secrets hidden behind false masks, damaged hearts, and black consciences, secrets that have no relation to human beings.
Bashayer travels and searches for those merchants and victims of human trafficking who drowned and were shackled in the cursed markets.
Ten chapters embody various stories, including a man who exploits a woman, exhausting her energy until the last moment of her life, leaving her bleeding in pain and crying until her life is up...and a young man who uses girls as a source of money, who is willing to smash their faces into the ground for the sake of a few dirhams...and a father... A mother who neglects their little girl so much that her feet slip into the well of perversion... and a girl who loves to have sex with men and exercise her desires with them...
A woman whose only goal in life is to make strangers fall in love with her...and a teenager who takes lithium pills due to the excessive depression and psychological pressure she is experiencing...
At the end of each chapter, there is an awareness pause to realize reality and look at the issues before making a mistake
The aim of the novel is to raise awareness in society, especially the current generation
With every meter that Rudy passed, his resistance to the influence of the fortune teller’s words became more intense, but at the same time, the fortune teller’s words became more deeply rooted in his soul and mind. Although he did not admit it, the fortune teller's words had completely controlled him. “Indeed, what knowledge do we, the inhabitants of this vile grain of dust called the Earth, claim to say, ‘This is possible and this is not possible?’ If we were merely irrational beings, we would say that we were created as a result of certain interactions between different chemical elements, such as mushrooms, algae, and others. But where does the soul come from and where does it go?” Do you go? And the mind and feelings? It is impossible for a bone or muscle in my body to feel love or hatred or to think and make a decision. All of this is carried by an energy that resides in my body, an energy that is stronger and bigger than me. It does not even reveal to me who it is or what it is made of I am just a dead battery for this energy, what a worthless piece of junk I am, but why should I accept that the fortune teller’s words are true? He, too, is just a piece of junk like me! These thoughts were fighting inside Rudy, and he did not know which idea was victorious over the other
“In this book, Sadiq Al-Azm wanted to analyze the causes of the defeat and theoretically propose a response to it, before he realized that, like many others, it was a recurring defeat, not resulting from “external conspiracies,” but rather from a persistent Arab inability, shared by both the peoples and the authorities. And this defeat The recurring nature that responds to every defeat with a new defeat is what makes the book retain its relevance. The defeat whose causes were explained is still continuing, the reasons it criticized are still present, and the mentality that justifies what cannot be justified is growing, growing, and active. However, the true importance of the book is not It consists in illuminating a historical tragedy, specific to time, but rather in the free critical approach, which explains human disappointments with human causes, without referring to a vague reference.” Faisal Darraj