Kingdom of the Butterfly

Book title: The Butterfly Kingdom Author: Wasini Al-Araj Publisher: Dar Al-Adab Book classification: Novel Summary of the book: How does the Arab world face its problems and crises sharply and its wars apparent and hidden, which became evident strongly at the beginning of the twenty-first century, while it is unprepared for them under crushing dictatorships and ambiguous revolutions? Maria did not choose exile to northern cities and forgetting her land willingly. Yama's sister did not drown in virtual isolation longing for that. Their brother Ryan did not go into drugs willingly. Their father Zubair or Zorba, the global medical expert, did not go into the isolation of fear and death willingly, before the mafia of medicines stole his life. Mother Farija or Virginia did not go into the isolation of madness and death among her books willingly. This family did not choose tragic endings and harsh fates, but rather the isolation imposed on them by the silent war that followed the civil war, where the burning fires do not go out but hide under the ashes, waiting for their witnessed madness. Everyone fears everyone, everyone dreams of revenge on everyone, and everyone is watching everyone. Yama's isolation with Facebook, jazz music, and waiting for her virtual friend, Faust, is nothing but a new hiding inside the broken self, but who knows? The butterflies that do not break in the season of death grow certain of life.