عصور دانيال في مدينة الخيوط

The novel opens on puppets watching from balconies and windows as other puppets are slaughtered below. The people of this city, living under a heavy punishment, have become puppets, yet they have not turned to stone: they still feel pain and dread killing, the loss of their children in the chaos and the city's drowning under rain that never stops, and they still try to save themselves. Daniel, son of light and of darkness, writes without pause, piling up pages behind him like a pharaoh building a pyramid of paper to be buried under, while a romance by Chopin plays on and on.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

279 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2022 by Dar al-Ain

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789774906527 (original)