The highest horizon

The highest horizon by Fatima Abdul Hamidah was published by Maskelliani for Publishing as part of distinguished Arab novels, and was nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (the Booker) in 2023. Summary of the novel The Highest Horizon The wife dies, and the man realizes his ability to build houses. Sulaiman meets love late in his life, his mother leaves him, then his wife, and only their shadows remain, commanding him not to forget the balcony door is open, but he neglects their advice and forgets the balcony door is open, to find love in the form of a gentle shadow on the opposite balcony. However, death, which gave Sulaiman a new opportunity to build the sulfur houses from which he had been deprived since his youth, is the one that tells us his story in demolishing them one after the other, from his highest horizon, mocking humans and their persistence in a life that is in reality play and leisure. The value of this work lies in its celebration of simple human details, the daily details that a person lives and that shape his features and humanity away from general concepts, and the narrator, which is death, is just a camera moving between places to convey what happens every day. Does the reader really need the ringing of major issues or the mask of history? Can't part of life be understood by getting to know a man alone on a balcony, whenever a woman leaves his life, he shines? Quote from the novel "There are no happy endings in a life that stands on one leg."