Novels & Short stories

Death's friend Author's name: Pedro Antonio de Alarcón The image of the tall woman undoubtedly captured the mind and imagination of the archon and at the same time elevated her status and de-demonicated her in Death's Friend.

The beggar Author's name: Fernando Pessoa The Beggar and Other Stories includes twelve previously unpublished texts by the writer and poet Fernando Pessoa, which constitute a small portion of the author's imaginative prose. These are philosophical or intellectual stories—as Pessoa himself calls them—and paradoxical...

Letters to the Lost Author Name: Brigid Kimmerer This novel about life tells us not to believe what we see and hear, and that truth is relative. Every person has their own perspective, and every person has secrets and hidden things that they may...

fire snakes The Tale of the Lover Ali bin Mahmoud Al-Qassad Author's name: Jalal Barjas A novel by Jordanian poet and novelist Jalal Barjas, which won the Katara Prize for the Arabic Novel 2015, and was published by Katara in 2016. It was then...

Germinal Author's name: Amella Zola In a moving style and engaging narrative language, Emilia Zola tells the story of injustice and oppression, the story of the oppressed worker and his revolt against injustice, within a historical, social, and political framework that does not neglect...

crook Author's name: Silvina Ocampo In this novel, Silvina creates complex characters and weaves, in a style that combines fantasy and reality, intertwined threads in which voices overlap and viewpoints clash, creating anxiety in the reader as he searches for the truth.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Author's name: Victor Hugo When he lifted the child from the sack, he found him completely deformed. Claude's affection for this ugliness grew. He vowed in his heart to raise this child out of love for his brother, thus...

Les Misérables Author's name: Victor Hugo Customs and laws create a social condition, a kind of human hell. As long as indifference and poverty exist on earth, books like this one will always be necessary, especially for people living outside of society. Victor Hugo...

Nightmare and the World of Masks Author's name: Aziz Badr Firas aims to enter the world of masks without a mask, trying to pay attention to his inner voice only, in a world where justice and freedom fall and people assume their daily masks,...

near zero Author's name: Agatha Christie

The Man Who Crosses the Wall Author's name: Marcel Ayme This famous collection of short stories is a literary masterpiece that represents the pinnacle of French magical realism. Despite decades having passed since its publication, it still provides a great deal of reading pleasure...

Anne of Green Grove series 8 parts Author's Name: Lucy de Montgomery Anne of Green Prairie Anne of Avonlea Anne on the Island Anne of Willow Manor Anne's Dream House Anne of Ingleside Rainbow Valley Rela in Ingleside

The papermaker Amali Alaa Author's name: Youssef Ziedan Alaa al-Din Ibn al-Nafis lived for eighty years, during which he witnessed a tremendous amount of horrors and grave events: the Crusades and the horrific seventh campaign against Damietta and northern Egypt, the Mongol invasion and...

Maximum speed zero Author's name: Ashraf Al-Ashmawy It tells the story of an Egyptian family who lived in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo many years before the July Revolution and suffered for many years afterward. Strange events and complex characters whose destinies were...

You are wild Author's name: Cardinia Al-Ghawazi Attar Bottles Series We are back to complete the story of the perfume bottles, which began with the first bottle, Asia, in the first part (I await your cooing), for the events to turn towards the second...

Promised the kingdom of heaven Author's name: Cardinia Al-Ghawazi Promised by the king of heaven, Gardenia Al-Ghawazi, Job’s apple, a fortune teller. You see in the cup Hearts tell: You spin armies of love The flowers of your heart are pink, an ember in...

Waiting for your cooing Author's name: Cardinia Al-Ghawazi Attar Bottles Series An Iraqi series set in Baghdad, the events take place in the capital. A social romantic novel set in Iraq about four girls whose father died after his second marriage in order to...

Your braids in my dream Author's name: Cardinia Al-Ghawazi Attar Bottles Series Baghdad's fragrance wafts once again, with the third bottle, Rabab, from the Attar bottles series, is the spirit of my country, and the passion of Iraq is unlike any other passion. I...

You spin armies of love Author's name: Cardinia Al-Ghawazi The novel takes place in a Bedouin or tribal environment, and it contains glimpses of fantasy, or we might say Sufism, where there is belief in the existence of people whose veils have been lifted...

Fortune teller in the cup Author's name: Cardinia Al-Ghawazi We see it with all its advantages and disadvantages. We learn about the strength of its women, whom we imagined to be powerless. A powerful fortune teller and unique personalities.