What is the true value of a soldier's foot that saved the life of a higher-ranking officer? How does a person who has made laughter his profession actually laugh? How do brief yes or no answers summarize a man's happiness? What memories will a few paintings hanging in a school turned into a military hospital evoke for an injured student returning from war? Is it better to live to work, or to work to live?
These and other questions will be addressed by the German writer Heinrich Boll in this book. Reflecting in his sometimes funny, sometimes angry, and sensitive style every other time, his mockery of the conditions that followed the war, which forced people to resume their lives as if nothing had happened, and his mockery of the capitalist tendency that demands everyone to work to the best of their ability for the sake of “the future”... valuing contemplation. Slowly, Heinrich Bull writes in these stories his response to a hasty world, possessed by madness, and lacking its humanity.
The coffin of Noukhaza:
A small, dilapidated village, in which houses are wrapped around each other, compact as if they were one part. Its houses are made of mud, an indication of the poverty of this village.
Moving between the ancient markets of Aleppo and the bars of Berlin, the hero of the novel “Berlin Papers” rediscovers himself time after time, opens his hands to various experiences and new people, and listens closely waiting for someone to tell him a new story so that he can write it down. We see him escaping from a failed love story through exploration. The history of Germany in the two world wars: the first and the second, to get lost in memories, pictures, and maps, between western and eastern Aleppo and between western and eastern Berlin, and to flip through the paintings of the German painter Otto Dix, which embodied the ugliness of the First World War; In order to forget the images of destruction and killing that were preserved in his memory.
In his novel, Nihad Siris moves lightly between places, people, and events, within one flowing text, and his work hides behind a documentary character that explores the history of wars and city architecture, and then surprises the reader with an unexpected dose of imagination about marvels and supernatural powers that help people overcome the scourges of war by escaping towards... New beginnings.
Can a person escape from a war in his country by diving into the history of another war that took place in another time and place?
She's the one who killed me:
A person does not know what is going on in his hidden world
It is tall and beautiful, and when it fell, the sound of its fall was terrifying
It was as if a mountain had collapsed due to his hugeness and strength. He was the type of man whom you felt would never die or could not die. This is what a person thinks when he sees it filling around him with life. He works like a strange device that moves the flow of life around people, so events begin to come to you from every direction. Pleasant events happen to you. He produces life and distributes it without false packaging or illusions. I did not think that someone like him might depart from our lives in a disgusting car accident.
Leaving the herd:
A book about awareness and improving the quality of life, through returning to oneself, and respecting the human right to determine his true choices and preferences, and what he likes and dislikes... without coercion, and without having to go along with others in their convictions... The book consists of a set of brief lessons in thought, morals, emotion, and relationships. It is written in a smooth language, suitable for all ages. The book is considered an extension of a group of books that the writer has previously published in recent years, including Al-Comedino, Al-Dongguan, The Camel Café, and Al-Marakibi.
