My father's room

Publisher: Dafat Publications Number of pages: 224 The Lebanese poet and writer Abdo Wazen delves in his new novel "My Father's Room" into his narrative experience which he began in his previous novel "Open Heart" published in 2010. Wazen's experience is very special because it combines literary art and autobiography. The author does not write his autobiography according to the well-known method based on sequential and gradually chronological narration but seeks to merge autobiographical elements into a narrative and fictional context in which he becomes a narrator who goes beyond the task of writing about the life events he lived. The writer added a pioneering experimental dimension to his new novel, based on the data of autobiography, to open its horizons to the possibilities of free narration that blends reality and imagination. In this novel, recently published by Dafat Publications - Beirut and Al Ikhtilaf Publications - Algiers, Wazen narrates a double biography... his autobiography intersecting with his father’s biography, whom he almost does not know and seeks to get to know and to depict an image of him through the memories of others about him and their stories, including his mother and friends who are still alive, then through small artifacts that tell about him, especially black-and-white photos that indicate many aspects of his life, his news, and the places he knew.