صوفيا

Sofia Muhammad Hassan Alwan Moataz Shab in his thirties does not attract attention and does not raise questions. He suffers from a deep condition inside him that he does not know what it is, a disorder in the optic nerve, or rebellion in memory cells, or madness in the chromosomal system. Whatever appears before him he will accept it, as long as he does not remain in the same condition longer than necessary, and it becomes boring. His parents died in a car accident when he was twenty-five, and they left all their wealth to him. He married and quickly divorced his wife after three years of marriage, fearing she would get used to him and the boredom that follows. One day he met the Lebanese Christian Sofia online, which represented a strange state that contradicted the monotony he lives. So he decided to visit her at her apartment in Beirut. When he entered, he felt he entered a shrine... The cover is paper. Publication date: 2004. Number of pages: 136. Muhammad Hassan Alwan is a Saudi writer and novelist. His works published by Dar Al Saqi include: "Small Death" (Arab Booker Prize 2017), "The Beaver" (shortlisted for the Arab Booker Prize 2013), "The Ceiling of Sufficiency," "The Talisman of Purity," "Sofia."