Novels & Short stories

Folk tales, in general, represent the essence of people's wisdom, and the older the people, the deeper and richer their tales. They summarize the experiences of individuals who were forced to live in different circumstances, most of them rural dwellers, poor peasants, or craftsmen...

The Goldfinch 2 parts Author Name: Donna Tartt Miraculously, thirteen-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker survives an accident that kills his mother. Theo is taken in by a wealthy Park Avenue family because he is a friend of their son, whose father had abandoned the...

The mountains echoed Author's name: Khaled Hosseini All Pari wanted from her mother was to gather the fragments of her disjointed, scattered memories and help her transform them into a coherent sequence of events. But Mama didn't say much. She withheld much from her...

Our strange brothers Author's name: Amin Maalouf The novel revolves around a painter in his thirties named Alexander, who chose the island of Antakya to live alone, enjoying his isolation. This surprised his friends, who expected that he would not be able to live...

Gazelle silk Author's name: Jokha Alharthi Shocked by the sudden disappearance of her foster sister, Asiya, Ghazala flees from that village nestled among the mountains of Oman to fall in love with a violinist with delicate fingers and a dreamy nature. But the shadows...

The tribe rejects the marriage of Salha Bint Abuha to her maternal cousin Dakhil Bin Asmar, and forces her to marry her paternal cousin Saleh, the son of the sheikh of the Al Mahroos tribe. Salha receives news that her maternal cousin has left...

A piece of Europe Author's name: Radwa Ashour If a writer's happiness lies in accurately and powerfully portraying the truth, as Torre Geneve put it, then Radwa Ashour's novel is a slice of Europe. Perhaps she wants to offer a comprehensive assessment of a...

Death in the family Author's name: James Agee Here we tell you about my summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, when I lived there, most artfully disguised, in a child's clothing. Published two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death...

Zorba the Greek Author's name: Nikos Kazantzakis In the sea of ​​life, they walk, a president who sails with the current, organized and logical, never deviating from reason, and an illiterate traveler, a spontaneous adventurer, whose sail is the heart, whose homeland is love,...

The adornment of this world Author's name: Hassan Ourid The adornment of this world is that different races and multiple religions can live in harmony in one place. The adornment of this world is that no one is tempted in his religion and belief...

Seven Lies Author's name: Elizabeth Kay Jane and Mary are childhood friends who have shared everything and know each other's deepest secrets. But when Marnie falls in love, things between them begin to change. Because Jane has a secret to hide. She hated Marnie's...

Reading Lolita in Tehran   Author: Azar Nafisi     The story of lectures on rebellion that spanned two years, taught by Nafisi to a group of Iranian women starting in 1995 after her resignation from her university position; a position she could not...

The third lie Author's name: Agota Kristof And I tell her that I am trying to tell my story, but I cannot, and I do not have the courage, because it pains me, and so I summarise everything and describe things, not as they...

About love and other demons Author's name: Gabriel García Márquez This wonderful novel tells the story of Cierva María de Todos los Ángeles, a twelve-year-old girl and the unwanted daughter of the Marquis of Casalduero and his second wife, the lascivious mulatto Bernarda Cabrera....

The Bad Girl   Author: Mario Vargas Llosa     The novel revolves around the good boy and the bad girl. The good boy is Ricardo, who works as a translator for the United Nations, while the bad girl's names, like her personalities, are...

Memories of my sad whores Author's name: Gabriel García Márquez In this literary masterpiece, García Márquez recounts his life story from his birth in 1927, through his studies, where his writerly personality emerged, then the beginnings of his writing project, to a pivotal moment...

Don't kill the child in your wife Author's name: Mahmoud Tawfik Don't kill the child in your wife, the child who feels worthy of unconditional love. This is the love a child expects, for the man she has accepted to tell her with his...

legitimate thefts Author's name: Ashraf Al-Ashmawy Legitimate Thefts is an amazing book that documents the phenomenon of smuggling Egyptian antiquities and the means of recovering them. It documents for the first time how rare artifacts such as the bust of Nefertiti, the Rosetta Stone,...

Houses inhabited by cities Ilaf Al-Rish Our homes are us, in one way or another, they are our eloquent expression of what we would like the world to be. Our homes are not walls, ceilings, locks, and doors; they are not bricks and stones....

Love Haven Author's name: Shama'il I love you.. Try to help me because whoever started the tragedy will end it, whoever opened the doors will close them, and whoever lit the fire will put it out.