The importance of this novel lies in its ability to form a narrative space with a characteristic indicative of the manifestations of the suffering of the Palestinian people displaced from their homeland, which are characterized by cruelty, constraints, political persecution, a sense of brokenness, nostalgia, and a dream of return. By creating this fictional text, Nasrallah was able to trace the years of the Palestinian diaspora, from the first exodus in 1948 until the repercussions of the defeat in 1967, when he took daily material and made from it an amazingly detailed fictional world, not a historical record, opening a new door that is the concept of history in the fictional text and the importance of its existence, not as a description. Direct events, but the essence of the spirit of a time.
Pages: 323
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
