Keeping up with the sand

Author: Abdullah Al Nasser Category: Literature and Poetry Publisher: Kalemat Dubai Cover type: Hardcover Number of pages: 229 Year of publication: 2021 Synopsis of the novel: We are not righteous enough to hang a picture of the grandfather. Cruelty has sanctified us. Ancestors chased us to wear glasses of mercy. We were exhausted by praising wheat and broken by the fragility of the newborns. We spent days and dreams smoking our souls secretly in bathrooms. It is too late to love the nectar. It is too late to water the roots guarded by swords and fear. It is too late and not suitable for the family. We do not know a father, we who have long been writing, and people have been fleeing from our aging shadows. We were born with long legs in (dwarf forests). We did not mean to hurt anyone. But every time we ruin everything. We only knew how to walk. And from walking so much, we developed tough livers and barren luck suitable for crossing the desert. It is too late to love. The tree will never understand that walking is the root, and the family will never understand that walking is the family..