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Author's name: Ghazi Abdulrahman Al Gosaibi Publishing house: Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing Year of publication: 2003 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: A social political novel. He is always and forever, Al Gosaibi, a traveler whose imagination is his fuel, and a conversational ability through which he ventures into realms, borders, and times that know no limits. The guide in his journeys is thought—aware of history, geography, meetings, diplomacy, oppressions, and repercussions, and above all, Arab sciences rooted in a lived reality amid multiple-faced heimatns, their shadows extending from eternity, from the start of history marked by the Hijri, Gregorian, Persian, or Jewish calendar. Al Gosaibi launches with spontaneity and boundless freedom, through monologues and dialogues that interrogate his interlocutor, to speak on his tongue what stirs within him of concerns and issues. Abu Shalakh proceeds in narrating his stories and memoirs, from the beginnings of his brilliance, then the phase of resilience and confrontation, and Roosevelt’s deposit, the empire of "Um Saba'a Trading," and Nasaween in his life, to reach his strange journey around the world and his discovery of the various aspects of the moon. The interlocutor, Yaqub Al Mundhish, known as Abu Shalakh the amphibian, travels east, west, north, and south, meeting Hitler, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Mao Zedong, uncovering secrets of the past, events, incidents, men, and women. As he roams the place, Abu Shalakh the amphibian also roams through time, passing through stages from the beginning of mankind with his means of transportation, the stones, to airplanes, missiles, and the internet. Al Gosaibi, through this, confesses all taboos—political, literary, social—because the poet has rights others do not. His characters are symbols, his phrases are symbols, and his symbols are unlike any other symbols. His philosophy of life, livelihood, and reality, all pass lightly through the lines of Al Gosaibi, speaking with biting sarcasm that stirs the core of Arab pain and human pain sometimes, to burst out with smiles and laughter at other times. And why not? For Al Gosaibi laughs painfully from the pain.