The Golden Age

Book name: The Golden Age Author: Wang Xiaobo Publisher: Almutawaset Number of pages: 512 Book category: Novel Brief about the book: It is the author's first works translated into Arabic. It includes a collection of short stories by a writer who invents topics for storytelling, approaching contemporary life, and through it, one can discover the pleasure of storytelling and hunting at the same time, as he takes the reader towards the "unsaid" questions in the most complex human spaces, and he boldly dismisses many "taboos" or constants, whether related to the human self at its most vulnerable moments or to stereotypical images issued by institutions — all institutions — about themselves, hiding behind their influence a kind of fragility that is difficult to avoid. Here, writing celebrates human weakness, exalts the grandeur of loss, and makes life’s scars a horizon for cunning, making all the stories a carnival of satirical celebration of the crisis of the contemporary human in this great country.