What awakens the ashes

Author's name: Laila Al-Qabbani

In 22 texts ranging from short stories to very short stories, Laila Qabbani explores diverse narrative worlds, sometimes delving into historical dialogue, and with a keen eye, capturing diverse details of daily life, infusing them with wonder and a spirit of strangeness. In her texts, Laila Qabbani employs a variety of narrative techniques, ranging from multiple narrators of a single event, to shifting viewpoints as the narrative progresses, to varying rhythms between revelation and concealment, between the ordinariness of language and its density, and between the realism of the narrative and its poetics. This is the first collection of short stories by Laila Qabbani, and it heralds a writer who has a special imprint in her vision of the story as another, more delicate and more beautiful form of reality with its absurdity and harshness as well.