Angel's night

Nizar Abdul Sattar, novelist and Iraqi writer. Born in Baghdad in 1967, his first novel Laylat al-Malaik received widespread attention and was awarded in 1999 the Best Iraqi Novel Award from the Union of Iraqi Writers, and the Creativity Award. His short story collection "The Scent of Cinema" also won the Creativity Award in 2010. His novel "Tartar" was included in the short list for the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Literature branch in 2019. The Smartto stopped him in a break, the moon's darkness rising, on a metallic version, of the first bridge he knew in the villages, reminding visitors of the forge of the covenant, not of Wali Marwan bin Muhammad. And he conveyed to him, with a choke, the joy of his frustrations at the moment of their reconciliation after twenty-six centuries, which did not monopolize humiliation in overthrowing his personal heritage achievements. The fingers of the Smartto holding the wooden bucket loosened, and the branch of the myrtle planted in his left hand drooped after a pause of panting shown by the pale silver light in the form of a beak-like smile, whose clarity intertwined with his complex details, so that to the boy's eyes, at that moment of their outing, he appeared proportionate with his human body fused with the head of a large hawk, and with the double yellow wings on his back.