phonograph

Writing sought answers. A bouquet of questions hinting at the beautiful ambiguities that permeate everything within you. Writing is an act of purification, or an act of revenge for memory. The important thing was that it was a cry. The protagonist of "Phonograph" continues a painful journey through memory that began in "I Will Not Be Able to Graduate." With a high dose of confession, he reopens the wounds of loss, displacement, and bewilderment. Who was that father who neglected him? That mother whose tenant occupies a dock in every port? That grandmother who knows no other embrace but her own? That fluid identity that has never been tied to a single land? Here is intractable Beirut. Here is bleeding Baghdad. Here is the cold West. Here are the airports... first and foremost... The book is a search for answers. And this is a book that neither begins with its first page nor ends with its last. It is some of the ink flowing from a river of pain that is still far from its estuary. Writing is an endless search for answers, a bouquet of questions saturated with the fragrance of complex intricacies, enriching every surface. Writing is an act of purification or revenge for memory. Whatever its purpose, it echoes a primal cry. The protagonist of the novel "Phonograph" embarks on a painful journey through memory, a journey he began in his book "I Will Not Leave My Country." With a heavy dose of confession, he delves into the wounds of neglect, separation, and disorientation. Who was that father who ignored him? That mother who provided him with shelter in every port? That grandmother whose embrace was the only one he ever knew? That elusive identity, detached from any land? On one side, defiant Beirut; on the other, weeping Baghdad; and then there is the cold West. And here lie the airports... First and foremost... writing remains a continuous search for answers. This book neither begins with its first page nor ends with its last; it is a trickle of ink flowing from a long river of pain, still searching for an outlet.