All things

All things is a novel by the Kuwaiti Buthaina Al Essa published by the Arab Scientific Publishers within a collection of Arab novels, and it is a political social novel that provides a critical review of Kuwaiti society and the political movement that occurred in 2011. In the book All things, Buthaina Al Essa writes about the realism and legitimacy of the opposition speech, and about the oppression of authority. And she seeks to dismantle the relationship between the individual and authority, whether this authority is represented in literature, or the state, or the global system. And in All things, Buthaina Al Essa raises questions about the feasibility of confronting the system, and whether an individual can exist outside it at all, or if, at best, he is a gear in the very machine she tries to dismantle.