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The Stealth (Novel)
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Wikipedia article
'The Stealth' is considered the ninth novel of Sonallah Ibrahim's novels, and he is considered one of the literature stars of sixties. This novel was published in 2007 in Cairo, Arab Future House. The writer aims to shed light on the important issues that filled his mind and formed his concerns.
About the Novel
Sonallah Ibrahim portrayed us in this novel, Egypt in 1948 AD, the events of this novel revolve around the story of the young son who tells everything around him and his father who takes care of him. When he was five years old, and he explains to us in the smallest details of what he saw and heard, his eyes are observing, and piercing the smallest things, he lurks and kidnaps scenes and minute details to store in his subconscious mind, the child monitors everything that was going on around him, the movements of people and their privacy, the classes of his school and the habits of the street, market and squares The public and mosques in his time, with an attractive and detailed description that makes you travel in his time and live his moments.
The habit of voyeurism is the habit of the child, and it is something that the father does not realize in the novel due to the young age of his voyeur son, especially when the father takes the son with him wherever he goes. The child witnesses all the father's conversations with some people about politics, art, literature, women and the social situation in Egypt during wartime.
This novel focuses on many important topics, and perhaps the most important of them is the political topics, as the political topic in this novel clarifies the course of that time, in terms of the monarchy in that period and their immersion in the pleasures of life while the people were starving and Palestine has been lost since that period, in the times of domination British and French customs and traditions in Arab countries.
Through his novel, "The Voyeur," Sanalla Ibrahim shows us the bitter truths about society and government, which are full of hypocrisy, falsehood, and deception on the part of an innocent child.
Excerpts from the novel
I stand behind the glass, sticking my cheeks to the surface, so that I can see the house, which is on the corner, the window of Sabri Effendi is open, his wife appears for a moment, then disappears, short and fat, her face full of hamamelis, her children too, the big girl Siham, the middle one Suha, and the little Salma And Samir is the youngest.
We slow down in the dark lane entrance, step slowly, soft light, from the peculiarity of the wooden doors of the balconies, the shutter of the balcony of the house opposite us is open, but the glass door is closed and the curtains are drawn behind it, we stumble in the entrance to the house, we go up the few corroded steps, the door of our dark apartment is to the right of the stairs Leading up to the upper floors, to the left is a mysterious hole leading to the grocery store, which I avoid looking at.
See also
* Sharaf (novel)
References
Category:2007 novels
Category:Arabic-language novels
Category:Egyptian novels
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