The five-part Cities of Salt complete 1/5

Khaled Cities of Salt Abdul Rahman Munif as a global novelist and it was his entry into history, for it is a epic work, tires its reader and does not leave him to rest. Munif in it monitors the changes that affected the cities and lands of the Arabian Peninsula after oil. And it is a special turning point in the history of Arabic literature, for what preceded it is not like what came after. The Cities of Salt quintet was published in 5 volumes sold together by Dar Al-Tanweer as part of a distinguished collection of Arabic novels. About the novel Cities of Salt It is an Arabic novel by the Saudi novelist Abdul Rahman Munif, considered one of the most famous Arabic novels, and this novel consists of five parts. The novel depicts life with the beginning of oil discovery and the rapid transformations that befell the cities and villages of the Arabian Peninsula due to the discovery of oil. It represents a qualitative leap in historical narration and personal chronicle of an era that many of the new generation see as an incomplete picture, lost in describing what came after that phase or the present in a rosy picture but also incomplete. The novel is considered an important document that talks about and chronicles what blew upon Bedouin life from civilizational winds that undoubtedly affected Bedouin life, as Abdul Rahman Munif accurately monitored Bedouin life and expressed what stirs in the hearts of many Bedouins and their sudden wealth and the effects resulting from it. They said about the book Cities of Salt Al-Bahr... the only serious storytelling work that addresses the impact of oil, Americans, and local rulers in one of the Gulf countries. — Edward Said Cities of Salt, this novel is one of the most important and dangerous Arabic novels. If not the most important and dangerous of all. — Farouk Abdul Qader From Salt, history is written without being a book in history — Faisal Darajlo I was asked to choose the best five books published in English in 1988, and I chose the book Cities of Salt as one of them — Michel Abshirson, American novelist A work that reminds us of One Hundred Years of Solitude in its weaving of mystical mystery, mythology, and popular folklore, and in the symbolic hints it suggests. — Chicago Tribune