"Chanca", "Texcacal", and "Chon Bum" are three cities in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula that enjoyed great religious importance during the class war waged by the Mayas against the Spanish colonizers. The religious importance of these cities is due to their being centers of the phenomenon of speaking crosses.
In this wonderful book, the French writer (who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2008) tells, with great poetry, about his observations in these towns, in a captivating style. The trees, the water, the wind, the forests, the sky, and the earth, all of them become humanized in Le Clezio’s writing, as He has a unique ability to transform nature and its elements into vibrant, sensual things.
“فكِّر في حياتك بعمق وانطلق نحو السعادة”، للكاتب ويل باكينغهام، وترجمة “ديوان آرابيا”، والذي يمثِّل زاداً معرفياً يصحبنا من خلاله القارئ في رحلة ممتعة نستقي بها .
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.