In a satirical manner and through storytelling, the writer weaves his narrative fabric, recording the details of the daily life of the world before the Palestinian Nakba, and recording its historical events and personalities. He breathes life into the features of this stage, calling on the reader to touch and feel the pulse and spirit of things. The type of narration followed by the novelist leaves the reader free to direct conclusion. Through the framework of the seven lessons that the child, the protagonist of the story, will learn, which include the basic meanings in his life, the concepts of prevailing values that must be followed, and through the relationship that will be established between him and the British colonel, the vision of the world becomes clear and expanded in that time period, which constituted a fundamental turning point in the history of Palestine and the Arab world. “The soldiers will not know what really happened in the war before they return to their homes.” On the battlefield, priorities differ and the de-facto becomes the most prominent of the victors, but the taste of bitter results comes after that. Many of the novel's events take place during World War II, but it examines its repercussions on people, people, and situations. It is not a history of the political event, the catastrophe and the defeat, but rather a history of what happened to people and people, and of the stories that are shaped by the interaction between them.
Pages: 277
To request more books from the Ibrahim Nasrallah series:
1/ The time of the white horses
2/ Lanterns of the King of Galilee
3/ Shades of the keys
4/ Safe weddings
5/ Street olives
6/ Birds of caution
7/ The Second Dog War
8/ Tank under the Christmas tree
9/ The eraser kid
