Prayer of anxiety

Author's name: Muhammad Samir Nada

Is it a dystopia or a nightmare novel? A comedy that makes us laugh at ourselves or a tragedy that reflects our true selves in the mirror? Whatever the answer, we are faced with a distinctive novel written with the mind of an engineer and the heart of a surgeon. The cover of the novel by Tunisian writer and short story writer Issa Al-Jabli reads:
A village planted in oblivion, its foundations shaken by a mysterious explosion of an unknown object in 1977, suddenly transformed into a tightly sealed box in which each villager lives his own epic: oppressed rebels demand freedom, and tyrannical tyrants tighten their grip on lives and necks. But the narrative thread only advances to take us back in time, shedding light on a harsh decade that stretches from the June 1967 setback to the moment of the explosion, when the villagers' faces turned into turtles.
A single event in "Al-Naga" is narrated by eight different characters, their narratives forming a magical mosaic of the story. The core of the novel is a narrative questioning of the setback and the subsequent illusions of sovereignty and victory. Who writes true history: boots, rifles, and iron chains, or the undying cries of rebellion? And what does 1977 awaken in us? The death of meaning and art, or the absurdity of fate and false peace? Isn't the village of "Al-Manasi" a grand metaphor for a generation of the deformed?
Whatever the answer, “The Prayer of Anxiety” is just to bring together in one thread: the scattering of meaning and the strength of the weave.