مدن لا تغلب يدي

by Zhraa Alhaboby, زهراء أزهر الحبوبي

رُبَّما" هي ملحمة، أسطورة أو مُجرّد قصة يرويها شخصٌ "مُختلف" في مُجتمع "قد" يرفضُ الاختلاف. ملحمة من الحرب على اختلافها و أهمّها الحرب مع الذات، وهي أيضاً ملحمة الحبّ على اختلافه. هذه الرواية هي سلسلة من التناقضات فحتى عنوانها يُقرأ من الجهتين،
فهو من اليمين: مُدنٌ لا تغلبُ يدي
و من اليسار: يدي بلغتِ النّدم

"إنلال" هو سليلُ لكَش، إحدى أهم دُويلات المُدُن السومرّية. يروي قصة صراع عقله مع قلبه منذُ أن كبر و سرٌّ يحمله في داخله معه و منذُ أن نشأ ليجد نفسه يستخدمُ يساره لا يمينه، فحتى طالعه في كفّه اليُمنى يختلف عن كفّه اليُسرى
ليتركه في دوّامة من التساؤلات و العلاقات الإنسانية و غير الإنسانية!
أسرارٌ، ألغاز، خيبات و طموحٌ بالحصول على "كلّ شيء" أو "لا شيء"
... لقد أصبح قلبه سجيناً و عقلهُ السّجان ... فهل سيكونُ هذا الاختلاف لعنةً تُلاحقه ليكون قُرباناً لعرش غيره؟
أم أنّ غيره سيكونون قرابين مجده؟!
وهل هناك من سيفك أسر ذلك القلب؟!

لا تنسوا البحث عمّا بين السطور!

248 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Zhraa's writings incorporate history, mystery and
medicine. She has published several novels in Arabic, including The Sumerian Tales series, set in ancient Mesopotamia 2500BC, and Doves and Ravens, which tackles inequality (both with Al-Hafez Publishing, Dubai, 2015). When the Sun Escapes (Al-Adeeb Publishing, Amman-Baghdad, 2008) visualises Babylon and Assyria around 750BC. Zhraa is a medical doctor and researcher. She has MSc in International Primary Healthcare at the University of London, and PhD in Public Health, University of Bedfordshire. She is currently doing research on chronic illnesses and cyber-victimisation.

Reviews

[Sana Haboubi · Rating 5 out of 5]

سرد رائع سهل ممتنع، مخلوط بفترة تاريخية لا نعرف عنها الا القليل .. استغرقتني ٧ ساعات لأتمامها و عشت في حالة القصة و تفاصيلها.. لغز، حرب اخوة ،حب ،و ايثار،

[Abed Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to make this review as precise and surgical as possible: Two facets of this novel I’ve liked a lot, and another two I thought the author ought to change.

First, I believed that this novel was indeed set in ancient Mesopotamia; in the whole 200+ pages, there was no instance that made me think I was outside the historical time frame that the author wanted us to be reading about. The 2nd thing I thoroughly enjoyed was how the author was able to enter the labyrinth of the human mind and extract the plethora of what a human is in all that he or she could offer.

Second, I thought that the author should have satisfied herself with compressing the whole tale in one novel. Since I am not a big fan of the "novel series" myself, I would have preferred it if I had read the end of this tale in this novel itself. In addition, presenting the main hero, King Enlal, as an infallible character and an ever-victorious warrior trespassed the boundaries of logic. In fiction or non-fiction novels, I would prefer to read about human characters that can be victorious sometimes and would be subjected to defeats at other times, either in military battles or in anything that life throws at them.

All in all, the accurate historical taste and smell of Ancient Mesopotamia inside that novel pushed me to be biased towards liking this novel while overlooking the negative aspects.

[ام سيف · Rating 5 out of 5]

هل يوجد جزء ثاني لرواية مدن لا تهدم يدي

[Ayman · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب اكثر من رائع ومزيج مثالي للمشاعر البشرية الكبرياء الحب السلطة ونهاية ستجعلك تعيد قراءة مابين السطور 🤍

[Ruqia Ma · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has been my favourite to read for almost 8 years now I’ve read it multiple times already,such a great plot ,easy to relate to the character's thoughts and feelings , felt like I was literally in the book, and while there was some romance there was plenty of action and adventure too, and also to mention the amazing characters drawings (my heart can’t take it), such a talented author always my fav 10/10.

[zeina Al anbari · Rating 5 out of 5]

An extremely powerful story, Great book, I haven't read a book like this in a long time, the story takes the reader to another world, a rich world full of information and history. Parts of this experience may have been told before, but never with such freshness, intensity and power.

[Tabark Mohammad]

أين الجزء الثاني من الرواية ؟

[همسة · Rating 5 out of 5]

أكثر من رائع 🤩

[فردوس تغيا · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب رائع جدا قرأته في 2021 فعلا الكاتبة ابدعت أفكار مثلها لن تجدها في مكان آخر، أدعوكم لقراءته لانه يستحق⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐