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Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility.

On the eve of Angolan independence an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her apartment for 30 years, living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds, burning her furniture and books to stay alive and writing her story on the apartment’s walls. Almost as if we’re eavesdropping, the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window. As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers. A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted, wild patchwork of a novel, playing on a love of storytelling and fable.

Jabra s highly acclaimed novel is a masterful exploration of the post-1948 Arab world, with its frustrations, yearnings for homeland, and struggle for survival. As his characters interact on a ship sailing from Beirut to Europe, Jabra exposes them to the elements of spiritual and physical displacement. Some survive; others do not.

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...

رواية «أبناء غوندوانا» للمؤلف الايراني ألكسيس كوروس والتي كتبها بالفنلندية، وقامت بترجمتها إلى العربية ماريا بكلا، تعد الرواية الأولى لكوروس، حيث استلهم طابعها العام من عالم السرد الفارسي التقليدي رغم أن موضوع الحكاية، مسألة الهوية، هو موضوع حديث بامتياز. وتحكي الرواية الموجهة إلى الفتيان، حكاية بطريق فقست بيضته في عش طائر قطرس عن طريق الخطأ، وهي رواية فلسفية حكيمة حول النمو الروحي وتحقيق الذات، بحسب ما يقول ماتي ريني من صحيفة إيلتا سانومات الفنلندية. وفي تقديمه للرواية يقول المؤلف «في الحكاية يحتاج القاص جزءاً من الواقع ويُثريه بالخيال أو جزء من الخيال ويُثريه بالواقع. من ذا الذي يستطيع أن يقرر متى ومن أين يبدأ المصير؟».