Million Windows, authored by Gerald Marinen

A million windows a reflective remarkable in creative writing by one of the most important writers of Australia, who presents here a wonderful and confusing research in the glory of novel writing and its pitfalls, with a focus on the importance of trust and the inevitability of betrayal, in writing as in life. The intertwined threads of this work explore the charged relationships between the author and the reader, the child and the parent, the friend and the girlfriend, the husband and the wife. This is not a novel for the ordinary reader, but for the meticulous reader who loves to contemplate the fates of fictional characters, the logical sequence of events, and cares about everything deeper than the simple story that the novel usually presents. It is also an enjoyable novel for anyone interested in writing, as it opens a door to understanding the reasons why great writers choose a particular path for one of their characters. A million windows is classified as a meta-fiction novel, a classification for novels in which their authors explain the motives of their characters and discuss the logic of the events they invented, all within the text of the novel itself, making this genre distinctive and thought-provoking for the reader’s reflections. Here we present to the reader the first of Murnin’s works in Arabic, translated from English by Mohamed Abdel Nabi with skill and integrity. Number of pages: 215