The missing painting:
A novel that presents the difficult times the world faced during the Corona crisis. Although its characters are pure imagination, they can be projected onto reality, as it exposes many of the scenes that accompanied the Corona pandemic, and the internal and global reactions to it. As for the hero of the novel, Dr. Suhail, It is an example of hundreds of heroes who gave their lives, including medical staff, in more than one place, in the face of the pandemic.
The novel begins with Dr. Suhail, who loves drawing in addition to his professional work as a doctor. While he was drawing a painting that he wanted to participate in an art exhibition, in fulfillment of his dream of becoming a famous painter, but the Corona pandemic attacked him, as is the case with the whole world, so he rushed to his work, mobilizing to confront the Corona virus, but Fate hastened him, while he was in the midst of the confrontation with the virus, to die a martyr, and then his wife fulfilled his last wish, to be a famous artist, so she completed, with the help of his son, that painting that he had begun twenty years after his passing, while offering the price of the painting in a public auction to the needy in the name of her late husband, in appreciation and in memory of him. For his name.
In the introduction to his first collection of short stories, the Chinese storyteller Lu Xun says that he found himself driven to write because he felt intense loneliness. He was not able to forget, or, rather, he was not able to forget completely; So, he wrote stories about the past.
This is exactly what prompted me to write: overwhelming loneliness. I also failed to forget, so I wrote what remained in my memory about Syria before the war.
Sometimes, exiles write about nostalgia for a country they miss and wish to return to. This is not like the nostalgia of Syrians: the country has completely changed, and even disappeared. We long for a place that does not exist, except in memory. And memory, as you know, writhes, colors, and churns. I am no exception, and my memory does not claim to be completely faithful to reality, but I tried hard to write exactly what you dictated to me.
Hopes, dreams, and losses are all fading quickly, and so is the country, and what remains of it is in us: as if it were a half-smile, or a summer cloud, or a bright comet passing quickly, only to disappear completely moments later, before the eyes of curious, bored viewers, indifferent to its fate...
Its events take place in the village of Taiba in central Sudan, Gezira State, and its heroine is a beautiful and educated doctor who holds the threads of the narrative, expressing herself and the main characters in the story. She returns to her village after completing her studies, and makes major changes in the life of the village, and coincidence played a role in her taking the initiative to change. The village is lifted from its slumber within fifteen years, and then she discovers that she has lost her life and her beauty, and that she was loved by everyone, but she remained a spinster. She represents one of a group of six children to whom the school principal predicted brilliance during their primary school period, and through the narration she answers what It happened to them years after the prophecy. One of them was murdered and the other was murdered because of racist tendencies. The history of the murdered man, who descended from a grandfather who was a slave in the past. He dared to propose to the murderer’s sister. The discovery of the secret of the crime in the final chapters gives the novel suspense. One of them dropped out of school and inherited the butcher’s profession. From his father, and he discovered that he was cheating in his slaughtering, and was offering dead animals that had not been slaughtered in a legal manner. Then the climax of the crisis occurred when the doctor met her colleague whom she had left since she was a trainee doctor of excellence, and who was in love with her and had confessed his love to her in a letter thirteen years ago, to discover by chance that he had He lives in the same newly emerging metropolitan neighborhood, after she left the village to live in the capital in order to obtain a medical specialty. Then, leaving the village makes the village collapse and return to what it was, a remote village without lights, after she brought about a spring (change) in it that rarely comes. Because of her activity in the village hospital, He created confidence in its ability to treat the sick, the turnout of the people of neighboring villages, and the establishment of the village market, its expansion and the abundance of activities. The village expanded and took on a greater economic and social dimension, then it collapsed in less than a few months after the doctor (the protagonist of the novel) left the village after her shock and the collapse of her wedding when the police officers arrested her. The groom is arrested accused of murder
Gold cage:
Anonymous short stories. The characters talk about a cage in which a person has chained himself. This cage is about ancient events in which the person could not get out
From her cage, there is a lesson in every story.
عندما يكون الصراع بين القلب والعقل. على شكل معركة يسودها الكر والفر! ومشاعر تائهة في طريق الحياة دون مواجهة يبقى الحل: أما برسالة تستقيم بها تلك المشاعر!
