Happiness stone

Azhar Jargis lures us to follow the life of an obscure photographer, his dream of living in peace and dying without noise. Kamal, the photographer who carries his camera and roams the markets and ancient alleys documenting the lives of people and the city, finds himself one day involved with an armed gang, which causes him fear in his heart and turns his life upside down. The events unfold and escalate dramatically, with the silencer present, attempting, as usual, to bring a logical end to the journey of the defeated. It is a journey of suffering and happiness that begins with finding a small stone among the weeds in the Garden of Paradise in Mosul, then stopping at the Martyrs Bridge in Baghdad where the face of the Tigris withers and the memory of drowning lingers. An captivating novel that opens the wound of memories and stitches the bitterness of sorrow with sarcasm, according to disciplined aesthetics that avoid vulgarity and excessive padding.