The Blind Sindbad: Atlas of the Sea and War

Author's name: Buthaina Al Essa Publisher: Taqweem Publications for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2022 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: The Blind Sindbad novel tells about a single accidental incident, from a perspective that many Arabic novels have not addressed. This incident constitutes a radical and final transformation of the fates of characters who were characterized by self-importance, dreaming, and interaction, so they become thereafter mutants whose beginnings they never resemble. This is a novel about love, friendship, and betrayal, about political commitment and war, about the fall of slogans and contradictions in a world that has lost its purity forever, where those broad titles end in absurd lives in their ordinaryity. It is a novel about those who thought they were different, obsessed with commitment and dogmatism, until a single incident turns the scene upside down. The Blind Sindbad is Buthaina Al Essa's tenth novel and is published by Taqweem Publications. They said about The Blind Sindbad: It is a novel of absolute dualities; loyalty and betrayal, safety and fear, childhood and old age, belonging and loss, ugliness and beauty, doubt and certainty, confession and concealment, realization and fading... and others! Nothing is decided, even after the last lines end with the word "Finished," you see that nothing is finished. Did betrayal occur? Did Nawaf Amer kill? Did Nadia love? Does Fawaz love Manar? Who is the perpetrator and who is the victim! Or are everyone victims of everyone. — Alaa Farghali / Egyptian novelist. In "The Blind Sindbad," I found myself panting after the events that the author masterfully narrated, unconcerned with the passing time until I finished it, considering reading it again — Njem Abdulkarim / Kuwaiti media — Al-Jarida newspaper. Buthaina Al Essa exemplifies the art of transforming an ordinary story into an extraordinary novel. Sharif Metwally, reader, Goodreads The biggest challenge for any writer — inherently talented — is to find their own voice, to reach their unique style that distinguishes them, and I believe Buthaina succeeded clearly in that. Mohamed Gamal, reader, Goodreads I imagined the novel in its entirety! As if it were a short TV series presented before me, or as if I witnessed the events that happened to the characters with my own eyes. I smelled the scent of homes, streets, and majalis, heard the melodies of the oud and the adhan, tasted the shredded meat and the daqous, all the endings of the chapters carried a lot of melancholy, some of which are complex and cannot be fully grasped. Issa Al Maghribi, reader, Abjjad Quotes from The Blind Sindbad: But in reality, it is heartless, roaming the world with an empty chest; if you knock on its surface, you will hear echoes of the silence. But it always remained completely transparent; a wandering spirit floating on the surface of a story that does not concern it, even though it is her story. This world has become more corrupt than it should be anyway, and it needs a flood to cleanse it. At that moment, Manar thought that a dead mother is much better than a mother who abandons you. She needs to put some things behind her back so that the ordinary can become possible, even desirable.