Half life

Touches on the subject of illness humanely and approaches the lived reality; the idea of the book emerged during the period when the COVID-19 pandemic spread; it was a time when the world experienced social isolation that intensified the opportunities to study such topics and explore what relates to them in literature; hence the book came to shed light on a human side before being literary, which is (illness), and the subject of illness is one that writers have addressed historically and recently, but studies about it are almost absent in a way that reflects the importance of the topic, which enhances the value of the book and strengthens its chances in the Arab library; it explores a corner that remained untouched for a long time and searches through the texts of Saudi novels in which illness was the primary concern of the writer, creating a remarkable artistic portrayal of the darkness of illness in a unique creative form.