Street olives

Ibrahim Nasrallah works on a sensitive issue, which is the violation of the body, and he does so with full activation. The ways of dealing with women are one of the artistic justifications for creating a literary text that has its own distinction, solidity, and high narrative quality, for which Nasrallah is known as a novelist of a special kind. Three female characters move in this novel, but the novel is a condensation of fifty years of the ups and downs that the Palestinian person outside their homeland has experienced, from before the year of Nakba until the mid-1990s of the last century. A deep reflection on the idea of exile and persuasion, but the main thing that occupies all the pages of this novel is the idea of rape, in a narrative atmosphere capable of gripping the reader strongly... and an atmosphere of intensity, resentment, and revolution makes one sometimes feel unable to catch their breath. A novel that lives and dialogues through the most dangerous and precise stages of this history, the stage where defeat is internal, and the factors of weakness come from the heart and the brain, and the elements of disintegration are present before the eyes, then we do not notice or wake up. An enjoyable novel in the artistic and aesthetic sense of the word, enjoyable because of those characters who give us the feeling of sanctifying life and loving it, enjoyable because of those women who are unparalleled, enjoyable because of this unbearable longing for the homeland, enjoyable just because you read about those who lived and died and whom their homeland’s soil embraced. An authentic novel, through experience, language, references, and poetry, and that bold, brave, and successful attempt to blend arts together, to triumph over generalization, marginalization, and silencing, and the ability to speak in a time when even speaking has become persecuted or forbidden. Author: Ibrahim Nasrallah Pages: 431 Arab Scientific Publishers