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.
In 1949, writer Helen Hanff began correspondence with a used bookstore in London, asking them to help her secure some classic books that she could not find in New York. Over the course of 20 years, letters are exchanged between her and the store’s employees, especially Frank Doyle, who secures the books and sends them to her. This correspondence begins with a request for a copy of Hazlitt’s Three Essays and gradually deepens, building a transparent human relationship between book lovers on both sides of the ocean. In the details of their personal lives on the one hand, and chronicling the history of the two countries on the other hand, it includes talk about the food crisis in Britain after rationing, the pivotal elections in both countries, the sports clubs, their social life, Frank’s family news, the development of Helen’s professional career, and even the method of making pudding.
هناك جثة خامسة، وهناك جثث أخرى غيرها تنتظر دورها فى الرواية، وهناك عمال المشرحة المذعورين.. هناك لعنة غامضة تمرح خفية بين الجميع وهناك شر محدق، وكارثة أخشاها بشدة تنتظر أن تتحقق.. هناك طبيب نفسي عجوز يعرف الكثير جدا، وما يعرفه يثير الهلع في النفوس، فهل يحتفظ به لنفسه، أم يخبرهم ليبصيبهم بالجنون؟!.
تبدأ القصة بحياة مجموعة أطفال طبيعيين في مدينة صغيرة يرغبون بالعلم رغم الإمكانيات الضعيفة بالمكان فيذهبون الى شيخ منبوذ بالخفاء لتلقي قصصه وعلمه ومن بينهم بطل القصة الذي شغفه العلم والرغبة بمعرفة المجهول. لأجل المجهول نفعل كل شيء.
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