schizophrenia

Author's name: Hadi Al-Taymoumi

In his new novel, "Schizophrenia," Tunisian novelist Hedi Timoumi skillfully weaves a complex fictional world set in a space where reality and fantasy intertwine, and truth blends with myth.

The Bernaz family is expelled from their luxurious villa to Khirbet al-Hajariyah, a ruin haunted by a reputation for jinn and goblins. As the days pass, threads linking the family members to mysterious figures from the past are revealed, and ancient talismans and strange rituals emerge, leading events toward unexpected turns. Zakaria, Sultan Daaloush's son, finds himself in a harsh confrontation with his past, and painful truths about his lineage and identity are revealed.

The novel delves into folklore and ancient myths, and opens the door wide for the reader to the jinn, magic, and talismans, thrusting him into them to rid him of them and of a heavy legacy that has caused an entire civilization to live in a state of schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia presents a captivating tale of the past's influence on the present, of the illusions that control minds, and of the raging conflict between reality and myth in an environment laden with history and fraught with secrets. A novel that grips the reader from the first page to the last line, leaving them confronted with the most difficult question: What is truly believable?