“My father sent for me, and I knew I would die today...
A strange guardian, in a remote desert city, hundreds of years after his death, gives birth to her child from one of the city's girls. Is it one of his “dignities” or the crime of adultery? What should a son do who grew up torn between the holiness of his father and the filth of his mother? And how will his last journey be, when the man who has no way of disobeying his command called him, for a mysterious mission? A miraculous novel, embraced by a made-up city. "Mount Kohl" seems to be one of the cities of "One Thousand and One Nights", whose name does not exist in the state's maps or its official books. Her children are from one father.
"My Father's Tomb" is perhaps Tariq Imam's most provocative novel of fantasy and connection to superstition, as a means of deepening all thorny and unspoken questions of reality: the values of patriarchal society, the traps of sanctity, popular religious discourse at the height of its confrontation with its official counterpart, and the wandering of the individual in search of himself.
"My Father's Tomb": the novel of the Arab question par excellence, as it re-dismantles the inherited culture, with a text in which reality mixes with imagination, and is narrated by the hand of poetry.
