family wolf

Suhaib Ayoub

Hassan Al-Sabaa hates the entire universe, except for his mother. And his mother has disappeared. From his isolation, he watches everyone and knows their secrets. He may look like a skinny boy, but he is a wolf who inherited his wolfishness in blood, completing the cycle of suppressed violence and intertwined destinies in his family, as in any family. In the end, the story is the same, and the action is the same. Only the names change, only the times, and only the places.
The unique environment of the Lebanese city of Tripoli plays a prominent role in this story, where the streets and places are in harmony with the characters' emotions and destinies, becoming witnesses to their transformations, struggles, and most intimate feelings. The reader closely follows the lives of Hassan al-Sabaa, his family, and his neighbors, moving with them between past and present. The events in this short novel blend reality and imagination with great skill, intertwining aspects of loss, hatred, poverty, and crime, giving the narrative an exciting and profound character, along with its exceptional boldness.
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