Lightning

Translation: Abu Bakr Al-Ayadi Number of pages: 196 Publisher: Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority Cover: Hardcover What grips us in the novel "Burooq" from its farthest point to its farthest point is, among other distant connotations, the sharpness of this painful contrast between the generosity of the inventor and the stinginess of the environment. The stinginess of the emerging capitalism and its calculations, and the generosity of the benefactor who wants to illuminate the entire world for free, are laughed at and their inventions and profits stolen until he ends up alone and isolated, finding some solace in elegant delirium and eccentric behavior, in love for birds, treating and healing their wounds, that is, in increasing immersion in a strange personality with which he faces the strangeness of his era, a strangeness against strangeness and an affirmation of the courage of the self in the face of denial.