Qaf Qatel Sin Saeed, by: Abdullah Al-Busayis

A dull day for Officer Majid, whose heart balanced the scales of a death announcement of a man named Fahd. It was a natural death, but it opened a case file that had been closed without resolution for 21 years. The surprise: the only person capable of solving its mystery is the deceased Fahd! So what is his connection to Saeed’s disappearance? And what is the story behind his last recordings? And the most important question: where is Saeed? – Book Chinwa, the reader facing a special case of creative narration that reveals its relationship with poetic language charged with beauty and flexible vocabulary, casting poetic touches over the events of the novel, adding brilliance to the voices of linguistic expression. Al-Bayss succeeded also in jumping with the subject of his novel outside the box of Arab ideas. Mahmoud Ismail (Al-Ittihad Newspaper) was distinguished by a rising dramatic plot that hooks you as a reader until the end of the work, and its dramatic escalation makes you eager to turn the next page in search of answers to the knot or mystery woven into its traps. – Dr. Mohammed Al-Khazem (Al-Jazeera Newspaper) presents us with Abdullah Al-Bayss in his novel “Qaf Killer, Sin Saeed” a world oscillating between choices, where the most important question is not: “Which choice is better?” but “Which choice is less burdensome?”; a world where the meanings of things we thought we understood are dissipating; a world that depends not only on our visions but also on others’ visions, and on overlapping times that may contribute to dispelling our illusions. – Yazan Al-Hajj (Al-Akhbar Newspaper) The novel, in many aspects, explores the influence of language on humans and how we create our world from words. It is also preoccupied with comparing image and word. In a dialogue between “Majid” and his uncle “Adel,” the latter explains to him what Wittgenstein’s first theory about how communication occurs between humans in his book “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” which claimed that language works to evoke images within us about the essence of things around us in the world. – Abdul Karim Al-Hajraoui (Independent Arabic Newspaper) The novel “Qaf Killer.. Sin Saeed” by Kuwaiti author Abdullah Al-Bayss represents an existential dimension and a magical story about the unread in Kuwaiti society specifically. It does not represent a mystery in a murder case, nor an attempt to solve it in a surreal manner closer to magical realism. – Basel Al-Zeer (Al-Qabas Newspaper)