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DELIRIUM: The Attic Revelations
The novel is based on an imaginary narrative vision of the spirit of a dead character who lived during the First World War and who haunts the body of one of her great-grandchildren. Kitbah tells us about her love story with one of the Baghdadi notables who was enlisted unjustly and out of vengeance among the ranks of the conscripts in the wake of the Ottoman Empire's announced general mobilization and alliance with the Central Powers.
The narrative's flashbacks take us back to the beginning of the twentieth century, then another temporal transition drives us to the seventies of the last century. Kitbah's soul was moving between the bodies of those who carried her name in an attempt to get closer to her lover. However, no sooner had Mustapha returned to Baghdad after years of captivity than she disappeared into the depths of the river. The novel also includes the journal Mustapha Tukmachi, in two parts, the first of which reached his family after the invasion of the Russian forces of the Erdrum region and his disappearance; one of the recruits found it among his things and returned to his family. The second part is what he wrote after his return to Baghdad about his long journey of torment and years of captivity in the hands of the Russian forces.
The narrative's flashbacks take us back to the beginning of the twentieth century, then another temporal transition drives us to the seventies of the last century. Kitbah's soul was moving between the bodies of those who carried her name in an attempt to get closer to her lover. However, no sooner had Mustapha returned to Baghdad after years of captivity than she disappeared into the depths of the river. The novel also includes the journal Mustapha Tukmachi, in two parts, the first of which reached his family after the invasion of the Russian forces of the Erdrum region and his disappearance; one of the recruits found it among his things and returned to his family. The second part is what he wrote after his return to Baghdad about his long journey of torment and years of captivity in the hands of the Russian forces.
253 pages, Paperback
Published October 13, 2022
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Ghid AlGhareb
2 books38 followersروائية عراقية من مواليد بغداد 1986
مقيمة في قطر حيث أعمل مدرسة لغة عربية للناطقين بغيرها.
- لمبعوثون: ترنيمة القيامة الصادرة عن دار ثقافة أبو ظبي 2019.
- سكرة: مزامير الدَّم الفائزة بجائزة كتارا للرواية العربية في دروتها السابعة 2021 فئة الروايات غير المنشورة.
مقيمة في قطر حيث أعمل مدرسة لغة عربية للناطقين بغيرها.
- لمبعوثون: ترنيمة القيامة الصادرة عن دار ثقافة أبو ظبي 2019.
- سكرة: مزامير الدَّم الفائزة بجائزة كتارا للرواية العربية في دروتها السابعة 2021 فئة الروايات غير المنشورة.
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April 3, 2023
رواية جميلة لفترة زمنية لم تاخذ حقها من السرد ترويها الكاتبة بكل مافيها من جوع وبرد ونقص امدادات لهذا الجندي العراقي
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October 2, 2023
The author takes the reader on a journey and describes in detail the experiences of the characters, so that the reader can fully empathise. A captivating book, I couldn't stop reading. Absolutely recommendable.
April 3, 2023
قصة وسرد رائع ، أخذتني الى اماكن حقيقية بكل تفاصيلها عشت فيها في فترة سابقة ، التنقلات ، الشخصيات ، والحبكة اكثر من ممتعة ، شكرا للروائية على هذه الرحلة المميزة .
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