Bright Sun Days - Miral Al-Tahawi

In the novel "The Days of the Bright Sun," the migrant who dreams of a better life quickly collides with the bitter reality he must absorb before it crushes him. The brilliance of the storytelling lies in surpassing tragedy and relying on a scenic language completely distant from the tragic, from feelings of nostalgia, sadness, fear, pain, and all other burning emotions. That opposing structure that haunts us throughout the chapters of the book is one of the novelist's creative achievements. Meral Al-Tahawi does not write a novel work, but constructs multiple interconnected and intertwined worlds in a single tight braid, weaving its threads patiently and with a new astonishing expertise—an experience of a new world she is entering for the first time. She writes in a different language, with a different feeling of the very act of writing itself, weaving it with control and precision. The novel presents sharp intersections between human hope and death, beginning with a suicide incident and ending with mass death. All the heroes, without exception, leave their places hoping to find a glimmer of hope for a more humane and compassionate life, but they find themselves in a tangled web.