The last tobacco fields

Author's name: Taher Al-Zahrani Publisher: Dar Al-Tanweer for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2020 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: In a simple narrative language, without embellishment, Taher Al-Zahrani writes a beautiful story about a village isolated from the villages of Tihama, about the story of the grandfather and tobacco, about the transformations of the village after the road reached it, which connects it to the city, and to the country that began to impose its laws on it... "Last Tobacco Fields" is a novel carrying symbolism of the end of that life that changes as the fortress that symbolizes that life, which nostalgia does not fade from: "Whenever I try to move away from the place, fate brings me back to it." Many things can be told about that stage, which holds a tank of stories derived from facts, from which the narrator creates an enjoyable imagination. "Oh wow, my only grandfather, the remaining part of our ancestors embedded in the aftermath of time, his face wrinkled, his closed eyes, the prominent veins of his hand... Between the furrows of his brow, hundreds of stories hide..."