Ain Hammurabi

Book title: Ain Hammurabi Author: Abdul Latif Abdullah Publisher: Maskelyani Number of pages: 326 Book category: Novel Summary of the book: Everything that the voice may hide, it releases with a single look, and from "Ain Hammurabi" emerge looks that explode into stories, some of which are truths to the hero, and others illusions, separated by a thin thread. You see them intertwine in a strange way until the voice melts into its echo and the face into its back, and the threads of the game become tangled in a confusing narration that questions us about the purpose of this life, and whether it is within our capacity to be without history and memory, or that we are ourselves while our limbs are lost in the paths of human beasts. From inside the investigation office, the hero takes us on a journey through time and place, transforming the one fleeing death into a smuggler of stories that tempt the investigator with the charm of narration, just like Scheherazade, until he delays the impending flood of anger outside the barracks and a tide of accusations whose truth he does not know, but he transforms from a fugitive from death into one who walks toward it willingly. Death repeatedly turned him back when he walked toward it, pushing him forcefully into the hole of a personal history erased by a damaged memory and a collective history that this attempt seeks to save from the hands of the troublemakers and ignores, seeing it as trivial in front of the dominance of money. And well done is death, for it has opened for us the pleasure of storytelling that may make a person forget some of the pains of history.