Memory of the body

A collection of words, phrases dripping with spiritual singing celebration. Its music is the homeland emanating despite the wounds... a million martyrs, revolution, and mujahid, and the orphaned Algeria with its children emanates whirlwinds and storms of longing and nostalgia in the heart of Khaled the painter who took up the brush after his hand, which once carried a weapon, had fallen, and the brush and the weapon are the same, both are a brush playing on the strings of the homeland. In France, when he was drawing what his eyes saw, the Mirabeau Bridge and the Seine River, he found that what he was drawing was another bridge and another valley for another city, Constantine, so he realized at that moment that he was not drawing what we inhabit, but what inhabits us. And were it not for the dreams of Mustaghanemi, would she be writing the memory of the body or the memory of the homeland?!! It is the same, for the body is but a part of the homeland, and the homeland is but this body that resides in it forever. The memory drips, filled with the spirit of the past that refuses to leave, manifesting in everything, embodied by Al-Taher, who, as Khaled knew her, was a girl, a woman who led his steps on the path of struggle; he knew her as a woman... she could have been his beloved, his wife, but she became a wife in a marriage he did not attend. The pages of memory turn, and the phrases sway, holding onto the edges of memories without awakening the soul to the boredom of presence. Homeland and beloved meet, and revolution and love melt into one crucible, their mixture being intellectual giving, far from fantasy, closer to reality, and for a person in the sincerity of their feelings and sensations, closer and closer. It is one of the best-selling novels in the Arab world since its publication in 1993, telling an unusual love story between Khaled, an Algerian painter, and the daughter of Al-Taher, one of the great martyrs of the revolution who was his companion and leader in the liberation war. After knowing her as a girl, Khaled, who lost a hand during the war, returns. Number of pages: 383 Year of publication: 2023 Publisher: Dar Hachette An-Nuzul / Nofal