Jabal Haliya

Publishing house: Jadal for Publishing, Translation, and Distribution Number of pages: 216 It is the novel of invasion; the narrator invades the world of the dead through his narration from the perspective of (Omar Al-Suraji) from inside his grave, and the dead invade the world of the living through the trial of (Omar Al-Suraji) for them. The city invades the village, so the villagers invade the city, and the village became a distorted copy of the city, living with its morals and lacking its virtues, and the city's flaws settled in the corners of the village. Water invades (Omar's) house during his birth through the cracked walls, the torn windows, and beneath the old wooden door. (p7), and (Ibrahim Madooh) invades the art of storytelling with his first novel (Jabal Haliya). It is a novel of (paradoxes), paradoxes of life and death, sorrow and joy, victory and defeat. Next to (Al-Surja village), a symbol of life, stood (Jabal Haliya), a symbol of death. When (Aasiya), the beloved, moved to the mountain of death, life moved there, the narrator says: "Congratulations to the inhabitants of Jabal Haliya near Aasiya, life has become there, where Aasiya, and death filled the Surja." (p77). When (Omar Al-Suraji) was born, he wrestled with sorrow and joy: sorrow for the death of (Omar's) mother during his birth, and joy for (Omar's) birth, but sorrow overshadowed joy. While custom dictated firing guns in celebration of the boys' arrival, the death of Omar's mother due to his birth extinguished all happiness, as sorrow overtook joy. Thus, (Omar) became an ominous figure, as his grandmother (Fadda) would rebuke him in her moments of anger. (p8). The misfortune of this newborn came from several sources: the tripartite aggression against Egypt, which caused his mother's death, and his father's hatred for him because he reminded him of the pain of losing his beloved wife. He was born on a miserable rainy night.