Contemplating the stick creates the impression that it does not mean anything. It is just a whip, thin or thick, depending on the personality and mission of the one carrying it. It may be made of bamboo, the limbs of a tamarisk or brown tree, or anything. It may be expensive, and a person may pick it from the ground. At no cost. But these things that do not mean anything carry meanings, and conjuring up the image of their presence among others may indicate to you that they are very important, and that they are everything to us here. In black Africa, in Australia, and among the inhabitants of the Alps, it is carried by the old, the young, and the elders of the people, and in the hands of the guard and the shepherd, and it is used by the cleric, as well as the magician and the sorcerer, and you find it solid in the military, moved by the music melody of the maestro, and in all parts of the world it is present, and in every tenses
An overview of the novel The Rule of the Weak
This novel carries a vivid picture of the suffering of the awakening generation of young people with their fight against love and honor in favor of religion, and their attempt to achieve the principle that there is no honor in love and no love in honor. That very recent era killed many love stories and tortured them under the cover of darkness.
Immigrant writer
A girl enters a nunnery with a box and a wedding dress. A woman follows a homeless woman wearing a green dress through the streets of the city. A third woman’s life changes after visiting her husband’s family cemetery, and she keeps searching for herself, for a “place.” And a fourth woman is lost in a world of gray, brown, and purple faces, above which a tree floats. She survives, and a fifth woman visits Istanbul with her husband and stays in the same hotel where Agatha Christie once stayed, and the lives of the two intersect in a mysterious way.
These five women are the heroines of Cristina Fernandez Cubas, who narrates a special magic that overwhelms us, seduces us, arouses our anger, and fills us with images, feelings, descriptions, and fantasies, before which we cannot be astonished, by the ability of her writer, to create a dreamy atmosphere in a unique literary style.