This is an important book in its content, title, and field, and it is a topic that has not been summarized in a book
In this detail and following the historical archaeological scientific method. Its author is a person who has communicated with the Emirates, and with the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah since he was a student at the university, and worked in difficult circumstances. He wrote many research and articles about the antiquities of the Emirates in general, and about the antiquities of Ras Al Khaimah in particular. He was creative, mastered, improved, and accomplished, and for this reason it can be considered One of the most active foreign researchers in the fields of antiquities related to the United Arab Emirates in general. He was attached to the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, lived and worked there, and mixed his thoughts with its antiquities and heritage buildings. Hence, the translation of this book comes to provide the Arab Library with a reference in architectural heritage, allowing readers to see the castles, forts and towers contained in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, which is considered one of the most important examples of traditional architecture in the United Arab Emirates. The reader will find in this book accuracy and methodology, explanation and detail, and pictures and illustrative drawings that will help the reader comprehend and understand what he has read.
A university professor sees a painting in a museum in which a person very similar to his father is drawn, and he feels deeply that the resemblance does not stop at the symmetry of the two faces alone. A frightening intuition awakens within him, and he tries to meet a relative of the descendants of the man in the painting.
The novel's hero enters the maze of dream and wakefulness, and the maze of memory with its ramifications, evoking stories in which the real is mixed with the imaginary, and little by little we find that we are faced with several narratives, each one of which brings us into a new loss, until we ourselves become walking on the border between dream and wakefulness.
In “The Dark Bank,” José María Merino writes about the other or the companion, and about the past and memory, in a wonderful labyrinthine structure, within a vast time that lies on the margins of hours and pulses, and offers us pure pleasure that stimulates our imagination and senses.