The novel, written by its author with the ink of love and sadness over what happened to his country, sheds light on real events lived by real heroes, and revolves around a basic and important point, which is the defense of the homeland, its pride and dignity against all the calamities that befall it even if the price is the soul, where the author managed to create a relationship with the recipient because this “recipient” figure is one of its characters.
The novel issued by the Sein Printing, Publishing and Advertising House began with the kidnapping of Salah, who works in a media outlet in addition to being a poet and critic, at the hands of terrorist gangs consisting, according to the novel, of persecuted and morally wanted men and their ilk, to face all kinds of torture in order to work with them against his homeland.
The novel explains that despite all the torture and abuse that Salah was subjected to by the terrorists to force him to turn into opposition channels, he was agonizing over them with his answers, as they were, in addition to torturing him, threatening to kidnap his children, but he resolved to die with honor and courage.
A few days after his kidnapping, the army stormed his place and liberated him, where one of the soldiers congratulated him on his safety. Salah said, “I felt the Syrian Arab Army embrace me,” to return with his pride to his town to see it occupied by them and then continue the confrontation against them and their operators with all his cultural and intellectual capabilities to arouse the peoples’ determination. His companions and colleagues.
In the context of the events of the novel, we see that one of the sons of the protagonist was influenced by his father and was proud of what he did for his country, so he started confronting terrorists through his work as an officer in the Syrian Arab Army. As for his young son Hussein, he started facing websites that try to undermine his homeland and work to destroy them in solidarity with the positions of his father.
Despite the novel’s reliance on realism and a little imagination, passion dominated it, so sadness was greater than time and place, for the imagination to intervene at the end of it, and the hero was martyred in defense of his homeland, which he loved, so that his grandchildren came after him to complete his way in defending the homeland, each in his field of competence.
At the end, the novel reveals that his three grandchildren are thinking of revenge for their grandfather Salah and the transfer of his body to his village, which was liberated by the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army, to announce the beginning of another part that carries many surprises and real facts.
This novel, comprised of 117 pages of , is considered the first novelistic work of the writer to be added to his poetic, critical and media balance.
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