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Author's name: Amin Al-Zawi

“The Midday Dream” by Amin Al-Zawawi is a narrative painting of the philosophies of strength and weakness inherent in man, the path of Aunt Masouda Al-Qarih, a brave woman who loves life and clings to it fiercely with her teeth.

A mother of three children, she firmly confronted the symbols of treason during the Algerian revolution, and although independence was not kind to her, she did not give up.

She collapses once, then rises again. She resisted the new betrayals with her attitudes, her behavior, and also through her children who suffer from psychological defects, which they transformed into a legendary, creative energy that triumphs over the ruin that threatens the self and the country.

In the novel “The Nap Dream,” genius and madness coexist in harmony and unity through the images and lives of exciting characters: Abdelkader El Mokh, Idris El Ghoul, the zookeeper, Benallal Erroumi, Zoubaida Farhani, and Halima El Nouri… characters who seem to be standing on the edge of surrealism and strangeness, but in this state they are nothing but the product of a rigid and violent reality that the simple man lives every day.

This latest novel by Amin Al-Zawawi, which you have in your hands, is a text written with strict linguistic economy, a text free from the phenomenon of morbid obesity or excess weight.