The second dog war

This novel's events revolve, with its free imagination and crazy realism, in the world of the independent. As much as it reflects on the Arab situation, it also contemplates the conditions of humans everywhere. In a time when a person can no longer distinguish whether the person standing opposite him is his likeness or his killer. "The Second Dog War" is a new novel in which Ibrahim Nasrallah surprises his readers with continuous renewal and the ability to evoke the future from the heart of darkness, through characters moving in a violated nature, with less light and little air, making breathing seem like an impossible task! And if Nasrallah dedicated his previous five novels, included in his literary project (Balconies), to reading the reality of authority and its meanings, in its various representations, then he presents in this novel a summary of the past as he sees it embodied in the future. Thus, the five novels, although separate from this work in events and characters, are the broader introductions to this dog war. A deep reflection on the tendency of brutality in the human heart against everything around it, and an insightful introspection into humans’ capacity to exterminate each other because of their differences, and to exterminate each other because of their similarities, through a scorching black comedy, and a fantastical observation of a world without doors of salvation. A broad humanistic novel, about narrow times, and about the history of violence, warning us not only about the future but also about the past and its events— the past that is our present and our tomorrow! And the high honesty that echoes after we finish reading this different work: someone must clearly tell us what humans want. It is worth mentioning that this book won the Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018. Author: Ibrahim Nasrallah Pages: 402 The Arab Center for Scientific Publishers