The outsider - Colin Wilson

When horror, injustice, dying, sadness, and darkness gather in one novel. A novel by the writer Mustafa Khalifa, banned from publication in the Arab world and published in French instead of Arabic. Its events take place in the eighties of the last century amidst the war between the Syrian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood. When Mustafa Khalifa decided to return to his country Syria from France because he claimed that his country needed him. He left behind all his memories and his beautiful reality, and when he arrived at the Syrian airport and tried to enter his country, he was arrested on the claim that he was affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood despite being Christian. Then he was imprisoned for more than 13 years, subjected to various types of torture and abuse. The novel is very painful and full of dark events, and the voices of horror, pain, and torture rise in it, exhausting and heartbreaking. By the way! The events of the novel The Shell are true, and if not, they are less than true in describing the torture faced by that Syrian young man.