Street olives

The Palestinian satire Ibrahim Nasser Allah works on a sensitive issue, which is the violation of the body, and he does so with full activation, and the ways of dealing with women is one of the artistic justifications for creating a literary text that has its distinction, its solidity, and its high narrative, which Nasser Allah is known for 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 his homeland has experienced, from before the year of the Nakba until the mid-1990s of the last century, and 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 sharpness, resentment, and revolution that sometimes makes one feel unable to catch his breath. A novel that lives and dialogues the most dangerous and precise stages of this history, the stage in which defeat is internal, and the factors of weakness come from the heart and the brain, and the elements of disintegration are apparent before the eyes, then we do not notice or wake up. A novel enjoyable 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 for those women who are unparalleled, enjoyable for that unbearable longing for the homeland, enjoyable just because you read about those who lived and did not die and whom the soil of their homeland embraced. An authentic novel, with experience, language, references, and poetry, and that bold, courageous, and successful attempt, by mixing arts together, and triumphing over generalization, marginalization, and disappearance, and the ability to speak in a time when even speech has become pursued or forbidden.