Eraser Kid

Author's name: Ibrahim Nasrallah

This novel is one of six parts of the Palestinian farce published by the Palestinian poet and writer, reshaping the pulse of Palestinian life to immortalize it and keep it alive in the memory of generations, no matter how many years pass. Using a sarcastic style and storytelling, the writer weaves his narrative fabric, recording the details of daily life in the world before the Palestinian Nakba, documenting its historical events and characters, breathing life into the characteristics of this period, inviting the reader to explore and sense the pulse and spirit of things. The narrative style followed by the novelist leaves the reader free to draw guided conclusions. Through the framework of the seven lessons that the child hero of the story will learn, which include the basic meanings of his life and the concepts of prevailing values ​​and those that must be followed, and through the relationship that will develop between him and the British colonel, the worldview of that era, which represented a fundamental turning point in the history of Palestine and the Arab world, becomes clearer and more expansive. "Soldiers will not know what really happened in the war until they return home." On the battlefield, priorities change, and reality becomes the most prominent victor, but the bitter taste of the results comes later. Much of the novel's events take place during World War II, but it explores its repercussions on people, characters, and situations. It is not a chronicle of the political event, the catastrophe, or the defeat, but rather a chronicle of what happened to people and humanity, and of the stories that the interaction between them creates. An elegant and thoughtful novel, radiating with poetry, sarcasm, and emotion from a time before the still-bleeding wound of the catastrophe and defeat, and stories that return with vivid images to a reality that was on the brink of them.