The girl and the cigarette

Author's name: Bonwa Diterterard Publisher: Maskelyani Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2005 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: "The Girl and the Cigarette" is a sign of dystopian literature (corrupt city literature) in the twenty-first century, but it is a satirical dystopia that lightly exposes the frantic world of ideals, dreams, and values until lightness becomes the counterpart of heaviness and the being becomes unbearable. A novel published in 2005, yet it sometimes predicted in a general and detailed way what would happen in Syria, for example, in the early years of the second decade, as the writer depicts scenes of cinematic terrorists with their victims, recording a narrative and intuitive premonition of what the whole world would see later on television screens. A cigarette saves the life of a condemned man, who then leaves the depths of prison to the arenas of glory and fame supported by tobacco industry lobbies, and a cigarette turns a worker's life upside down, causing him to fall to the lowest depths. Between these, the writer sends many messages: condemning social hypocrisy by dedicating slogans of "childhood care" instead of "totalitarian ideas," and calling for attention to a human model almost forgotten: the mature productive man, from whose flesh humanity feeds, and who gains nothing but neglect.