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Everyone who lived in the house becomes one of its people; the house's pigeons do not disappear and the house's snake does not betray. This is what Basira told me two years before our day, my grandfather's mother, or perhaps her grandmother, I do not know, she is very old, eternal, residing in a corner of the old Arab house's hall, wrapped in her blackness beneath the staircase. Why beneath the staircase? I never asked myself about the places of things I have been used to since my birth, in an Arab house whose narrow rooms overlook an internal, uncovered courtyard, a courtyard of Basira whom I have never seen open her eyes, as if her eyelids were stitched shut with her eyelashes since eternity. House pigeons: Author: Saud Al-Sanous Language: Arabic Publication date: 2017 Book format: Paperback Publisher: Arab House for Science Publishers Number of pages: 182 Book classification: Short stories and novels