Luxury of retreat

Overview of the book Tarf Al-Inkifa' This is a novel that speaks to us from the point of the most closely connected present, to highlight our contemporary reality that is deeply isolating us and cutting us off from the fabric of the community, where the individual no longer finds himself except in retreat and self-confinement; a novel that questions all forms of modern alienation (from burnout, to voluntary isolation, to imposed communication, to commodification, to the pain of loss and the impossibility of expression...) It is a work in which the boundaries between physical prisons and psychological prisons fade; a work that transforms the space of a narrow room into a vast horizon filled with contemplation and philosophy without falling into the vulgarity of directness and the blatant display of ideas. Along with its combination of the conditions of a complete novel—plot, characters, and narrative techniques—it reminds us that the distinguished novelist is the one who turns the reader into a cork piece, immersing in the psychological depth of the characters, without losing connection to the surface where the events unfold!