Birds of caution

Another novel added to "The Palestinian Comedy," written by the Palestinian poet and author, with much delicacy and vitality stemming from a human memory's sense, suffering, and longing in the fertile childhood stage with its dreams and illusions. Details of a private daily life convey the spirit of an era and the history of a people and a phase, and symbolism linking the personal lived experience with the general situation. A beautiful novel work, containing the power of suggestion that neither direct explicitness nor the reality of the event can achieve. Childhood learned its birds to be cautious so as not to fall every time into the traps of history, and to avoid becoming a prisoner of the cage bars. With a framework of nostalgia, poetry, simplicity, depth, and a narrative plot, the author expresses the suffering of the Palestinian people, addressing their feelings and deep emotions that were broken due to the harsh political situation of displacement, persecution, coercion, and pain. It also reminds of their stolen rights, from the right to return to the right to a decent life, all in a narrative manner far from political speech, pretension, or coldness. It is an act of commitment to the history of a people with all its daily life details, to keep it alive in memory with its atmosphere, its beings, and the way of life of its children, and to record it in a beautiful novelistic context, which may have a stronger effect than any other political action. It is worth noting that this book won the Arab Cultural Club Award for the best cover, first place - Lebanon, 2009. Author: Ibrahim Nassar Allah Pages: 305 Arab Scientific Publishers