Beggars of Immortality

Balqis, Youssef, Walid, Ghassan. Four characters, four faces. Four questions about meaning. And four yellow ones trying to confront the muscle of existence. Youssef the poet escapes his existence into a perfected image, a weapon he doesn't intend. Walid the rebel fights to escape the ghosts of the dead. Balqis mistakes the Brazilian tomatoes and wonders: Am I Raskolnikov or Sonya? And Ghassan takes refuge in the monotony of the Shatila tin shacks stained with the blood of the massacre... This is a novel for everyone tormented by questions. For everyone who has reached the realm of the ordinary. It contains love and a severed woman. It contains strained relationships with which people try to threaten their anxieties. It contains small, nameless acts of heroism. It contains the ordinary, the commonplace in the lives of all of us. It contains four characters who always avoid straying towards paradise, even though they always hate them and their illusions. Balqis, Youssef, Walid, and Ghassan. Four characters, four faces, four questions about the meaning of life, and four reflections trying to confront the dilemma of existence. Youssef the poet escapes the monotony of his life into a meticulously crafted image he can never quite reach. Walid the rebel fights, fleeing the ghosts of the dead. Balqis commits crimes of passion and wonders: Am I Raskolnikov or Sonya? And Ghassan seeks refuge in routine, fleeing the blood-stained, chaotic Shatila neighborhood. This is a novel for anyone haunted by questions, for anyone who has reached the limits of exhaustion and returned. It contains a sick love and a broken relationship. It portrays the strained relationships through which people try to alleviate their anxieties. It showcases the small acts of heroism of some unknown characters. It depicts the extraordinary in the ordinary, the present in each of our lives. The novel revolves around four characters who constantly run forward, yearning for a lost paradise, despite their firm belief that it is merely an illusion.