The masterpiece of the night owl - Mohsen Al-Ramli

Since your departure from the village and the town, we have been here following your news and the stories you publish, and whenever we gather for the evening, you are present with us, we talk about you, read, and secretly discuss your stories. We find in them memories of our childhood, our simple love stories, our university years, our service in the army, and wars.. and we feel that you express us. And in the bitter years of the siege, when one of us felt embarrassed to visit a friend and stay up at his house, so as not to burden him with hospitality duties, I collected all your stories that I obtained and duplicated them several copies, wrapped them in cardboard, and wrote on it (The Night Owl's Treasure) and distributed them to other friends so they could read them by candlelight or lanterns after the children and family had gone to sleep. - From a reader's letter - *** This book includes all the short stories of the Iraqi writer Dr. Mohsen Al-Ramli that he published over thirty years (1985–2015), and they are diverse in topics and forms, written at different stages, some of which were written and published first in Spanish and translated into other languages such as English, Portuguese, Russian, and German. Among the issues addressed are topics: love, war, migration, memory, cultural encounters, heritage, solitude, and existential concern. It also varies in techniques, language, and narrative styles between experimental, symbolic, traditional, between suggestion and explicitness, and between realism and illusion. The Night Owl's Treasure - Mohsen Al-Ramli