Forbidden

Author's name: Saad Ayed Al-Badr

The novel tells the story of a man who is in a hole, for reasons the reader learns by reading the pages of the novel The Forbidden, specifically on the fourth day of being thrown into that hole, where the hero of the work says: “Nothing has changed except for the feeling of stiffness in my limbs and skin, and the shortness of breath that made the gentle desert breezes like needles sticking in my right nostril directed towards the hole... and gnawing at my eyes and ears opposite them!” Our hero concludes his speech by saying: “How difficult is the feeling of being the only witness to life, as it slips away from you little by little and with a deadly slowness more deadly than death itself!”