شرفة الهاوية : عتبات شرفة الهاوية / ابراهيم نصر الله

هذه رواية عن طبقات النفس الانسانية مثلما هي عن طبقات بناء السلطة العربية وقدرتها الفائقة على تغيير ظاهرها دون ان يتغير في مضمونها شي يذكر. ( شرفة الهاوية ) رواية مفعمه بالحوارات العميقة وبالفارقات التي تذهب بعيدا في تفاصيل البنيه الاجتماعيه السياسية الاقتصادية السائدة . There are lost battles that we fight and are defeated with a cruelty that our position or circumstances cannot bear, but we are fighting them again. Whenever the abyss opens its balcony for us! With this textual threshold, Ibrahim Nasrallah lures the reader to the board of the “Balcony of the Abyss” and gives him the keys to exploration, to delve into its unknowns, and to illuminate its dark areas through a galaxy of intellectual and cultural discourses that will be erupted by the elements of the text during the act of reading. It is a novel about the layers of the human soul, just as it is about the layers of building Arab power, and its extraordinary ability to change its appearance, without changing anything in its content. An influential minister, a university professor, and a lawyer, three divided personalities, in a divided reality, moving in a time range that extends twenty years before the Arab revolutions, until the moment of the Big Bang. Where the influential person does not master anything as well as the violation of homelands, and the university professor does not master anything as well as the harassment of his students, and the lawyer does not master anything as well as her lack of justice for herself! In the background of the picture, it seems that the human margins, under siege, are the only ones capable of resisting all this with the cunning of the vanquished! (Balcony of the Abyss) is a novel full of deep dialogues, and paradoxes that go far into the details of the prevailing socio-political and economic structure, exposing the shiny outer shell of fragile personalities, despite their claims of power, and a social segment that lives on plunder, theft and corruption. Will the ability of the Arab regimes to adapt and renew themselves in the time of transformations that they started since the end of the eighties of the last century be the same perfected ability after the time of the revolutions?! This novel is on the long list of novels nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (Booker 2014).

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