City of Roses / Part 2: We all know that flowers have a beautiful life and their sweet, irresistible scent, and there are those who care for them and take care of them, and they are the children of the “human being of roses” until they become strong and face difficulties despite everything bad that happens to them, but their being is delicate and weak, quickly shaken by problems and withering. Until it becomes weak and dry, and thus it is fit for the needs of the picturesque “City of Roses” and its good residents, and there is a just and merciful king over his flowers and the children of “Bishr al-Ward” and he does not accept injustice when one of them invades, so he punishes the one who wronged and honors the oppressed, and you help him. A wonderful and wise princess to renew and develop the “City of Roses” until it became modern in life and view... (Let us go through a new experience together in the depths of the fictional novel and sail with its heroes until the end)...
The book: The Inner Treasure: is a guide book published in English and recently translated into Arabic. It revolves around the topic of self-development through the journey of searching for happiness, discovering inner treasures, and how to unleash an individual’s potential to achieve his goals and enrich his life.
He was working in a sales company to support his family, which consisted of a father, mother, and sister. He worked to pay off his father’s debts that had burdened him. He is the “good son” as long as he performs his duty to the fullest extent, and any change in this is accompanied by anger, rejection, and neglect. In his workplace, which he found himself forced to live with, the state of domination and control by the chief of staff on the one hand is clearly evident, while on the other hand, it is matched by a state of subservience and submission on his part.
In fact, he has an unconscious desire to be fired from his job, but he fears for his family. From here arises a state of schizophrenia, as the two models of the cruel father and the boss represent the controlling authoritarian principle, and this is what arouses in him both submission and the spirit of rebellion.
He tried to follow the rules, to be a polite boy, to be rational as his boss described him at work... and between all these honest attempts, we find him completely losing himself, and he began to experience a surprising existential crisis!
Here he wakes up from his nightmares one day to find himself transformed into a disgusting “insect”!!
At first glance, he thought he was still dreaming, and amid the chaos and unreasonableness of the events, he needed conclusive evidence to confirm to him the veracity of the event, and this is what he got when he found his family shocked and terrified by the horror of the event. Then he realized the reality of the event and exclaimed, saying: “No, it is not a dream.” .
Influenced by the dream of a utopia and the ideas of the French philosopher Capet in his book “The Journey to Ikaria,” the two friends Plutz and Wagner embark on a journey to the New World, to participate in building the ideal society there, but they are separated upon their return in conjunction with the tremendous changes that Europe is witnessing at the beginning of the century. Twenty years ago, while Plotz immersed himself in realizing the Nazi dreams of building an ideal society; To become one of the figures in the theories of eugenics and racial cleansing, Wagner isolates himself from life. He works secretly in a library that hides banned books.
Despite the estrangement between them, their destinies meet again after the fall of the Third Reich. Because of a mission, Hanzen sends the American officer; To discover the secrets of Plutz's life, by interrogating that friend who accompanied him for long periods of his life.
Through the secrets revealed in lengthy conversations between book lovers, and the memoirs of a victorious officer in his defeated home country, Ova Tim - in his novel Ikaria - monitors the extent to which people may descend in their quest to build the ideal society.