This is a foundational novel, not at the level of novel writing that travels far in the Palestinian time. Only, and it is here the end of the seventeenth century and almost the entire eighteenth century, as it covers 86 years, but in its deeper search for the foundations that form the identity and the human self in that region that extends between two seas: the Sea of Galilee and the Sea of Acre.
A major epic climax with which Ibrahim Nasrallah raises his fictional project, and the “Palestinian Comedy” project in particular, to a lofty position, as he writes the epic of that leader (Zaher al-Omar al-Zaydani) who revolted against Turkish rule and was able to establish in Palestine the first modern national, national political entity. This unique leader whose borders (state) extended from Palestine to many regions outside it. This novel transcends history and illuminates it brilliantly with real and imaginary personalities, moving between Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Istanbul, kneading history with great values and questions of love, death, fate and the relationship with nature in its deepest manifestations, and contemplating the spiritual and mythological history of Palestine, restoring in consideration the history of a Palestinian national struggle Brilliant, for a unique historical leader, in his understanding of the values of dignity, justice, liberation, the right to life, and religious tolerance that reaches an uncommon degree of breadth and nobility. (The Lanterns of the King of Galilee) is a bright and rare epic that presents us with rich, unknown pages, with high artistry, that re-arranges the national and human struggle history, Palestinian and Arab, again.
Pages: 559
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
