Anxiety of the evenings

Author's name: Marika Lucas Renvild Publisher: Al-Arabi for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2021 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: "I learned that death initially asks people to pay attention to the small details" The novel begins with the death of the older brother, followed by a feeling of guilt completely taking over "Yas," the heroine of the novel; she believes that she was the one who killed her brother when she thought that her father would kill her rabbit, so she wished that her brother would die instead of her. "This is not like those novels that make you turn your back to understand what just happened in them, but rather a novel that draws you inside to become part of its world as soon as you read the first word" – "Ted Hodgkinson," head of the Spoken Word Authority and one of the Booker Prize judges. "A first novel about the innocence shattered by grief and how it offers us both comfort and terror" – "Parul Seghal," New York Times "It is a novel that is not ashamed to mention cruelty frankly, but at the same time, it is justified cruelty. It introduces the reader to a narrator who does not adopt a correct narrative style but nonetheless cannot be forgotten" – "Holly Williams," The Guardian "Marika Lucas Renvild" A Dutch writer, born in 1991, she is the first Dutch author to win the Booker International Prize and the youngest to do so. "Night Concerns" is her novel, characterized by experimental and poetic language. The novel also won the "Libresse" Dutch literary award in 2019, a high-level literary prize in the Netherlands. "Marika Lucas Renvild" also won the Dutch "Man Booker Encouragement" Prize in 2015. In 2016, she received the "C Bading" Award for the best poetry collection.