Shadows of the Keys: A Novel
(ظلال المفاتيح رواية)

Name: Shadows of the Keys: A Novel
Author: Nasrallah, Ibrahim

Title	Shadows of the Keys: A Novel
Title Original	ظلال المفاتيح رواية
Author	Nasrallah, Ibrahim
Author Original	نصر الله، ابراهيم
Publication Date:	1440
Publication Place	Beirut - Beirut: Arab House of Science Publishers
Subject	History
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	142
Physical Dimensions	142 صفحة
Library:	University of Minnesota Libraries
Library Asset ID	ISBN: 9786140127081, ISBN: 6140127084, OCLC: 1114603823
Record ID	cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_140050880
Library Location	Request
Date	1440
Notes	The events of the first part of the Bells Trilogy take place in the village of “Ras Al-Saru,” one of the villages that was subjected to attacks by Zionist gangs in 1947. The writer traces the entire history of the village through a confrontation between “Maryam” and “Nahum.” “Maryam,” a Palestinian woman, found a boy the age of her children hiding in the barn of the house. She did not imagine that this boy was “Nahum,” one of the officers of the Zionist gangs that attacked the village the night before. He was trembling. For fear of the shame of being killed by an Arab woman, but Maryam bequeathed to him greater shame when she rescued him and helped him return to the colonies, and became the only witness to his false heroism and his false claim that he was able to hide from the Arabs and return safely. This confrontation was not the last, as Maryam and Nahum’s meetings were repeated three times, the first time was in 1948 when he was tasked with exterminating the village and ethnically cleansing it, even though he was not left on its land. A single shadow of any living thing. He remained certain that there was a witness to his false heroism still alive. This witness was the memory of Maryam, who was able to survive the village massacre and take refuge in the village of “Nabaa al-Fawqa.” The second meeting was in 1967, after the announcement of the occupation’s complete control over Palestine. Nahum did not hesitate to go and knock on her door, claiming that he had come to thank her, but Maryam realized the true purpose of the visit. And then she confessed in front of the villagers that she had helped him escape for no other reason than obedience to the customs and traditions that require protecting a stranger when he turns to you, even if he is your enemy. Nahum left the village and became certain that his old shame had not died and that in every confrontation she would inflict a new defeat on him. Then the third meeting was a resounding surprise after twenty years, when Nahum received a call from one of his commanders informing him that there was a woman who had been able to cross to her old village several times; To redraw the features of the entire city on the ground with stones, Nahum went to the village and found him facing Mary, an old woman whose memory stood in front of her village. He was certain that he had not and would not annihilate the village. Who can annihilate the memory of a homeland alive in minds and hearts? By the end of the novel, we realize that Mary is a symbol of the Palestinian mother who carried the Nakba on her head, swallowed the bitterness of defeat, and fought it with memory. The woman who carried the key to her house and could not find a necklace more valuable than it to adorn her neck until she handed it over to the one who memorized the story. Children and grandchildren after her, Maryam is a model that the writer wrote about to achieve the second goal of the comedy project, saying: “If we record the Palestinian story, we actually forget it, then everything we forget becomes the property of our enemies. -- $c Souk Okaz.
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Shadows of the Keys: A Novel

(ظلال المفاتيح رواية)

Author Nasrallah, Ibrahim

Author Original نصر الله، ابراهيم

Publication Date 1440

Publication Place Beirut - Beirut: Arab House of Science Publishers

Subject History

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript No

Pages Count 142

Physical Dimensions 142 صفحة

Library University of Minnesota Libraries

Library Asset ID ISBN: 9786140127081, ISBN: 6140127084, OCLC: 1114603823

Record ID cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_140050880

Library Location Request

Date 1440

Notes The events of the first part of the Bells Trilogy take place in the village of “Ras Al-Saru,” one of the villages that was subjected to attacks by Zionist gangs in 1947. The writer traces the entire history of the village through a confrontation between “Maryam” and “Nahum.” “Maryam,” a Palestinian woman, found a boy the age of her children hiding in the barn of the house. She did not imagine that this boy was “Nahum,” one of the officers of the Zionist gangs that attacked the village the night before. He was trembling. For fear of the shame of being killed by an Arab woman, but Maryam bequeathed to him greater shame when she rescued him and helped him return to the colonies, and became the only witness to his false heroism and his false claim that he was able to hide from the Arabs and return safely. This confrontation was not the last, as Maryam and Nahum’s meetings were repeated three times, the first time was in 1948 when he was tasked with exterminating the village and ethnically cleansing it, even though he was not left on its land. A single shadow of any living thing. He remained certain that there was a witness to his false heroism still alive. This witness was the memory of Maryam, who was able to survive the village massacre and take refuge in the village of “Nabaa al-Fawqa.” The second meeting was in 1967, after the announcement of the occupation’s complete control over Palestine. Nahum did not hesitate to go and knock on her door, claiming that he had come to thank her, but Maryam realized the true purpose of the visit. And then she confessed in front of the villagers that she had helped him escape for no other reason than obedience to the customs and traditions that require protecting a stranger when he turns to you, even if he is your enemy. Nahum left the village and became certain that his old shame had not died and that in every confrontation she would inflict a new defeat on him. Then the third meeting was a resounding surprise after twenty years, when Nahum received a call from one of his commanders informing him that there was a woman who had been able to cross to her old village several times; To redraw the features of the entire city on the ground with stones, Nahum went to the village and found him facing Mary, an old woman whose memory stood in front of her village. He was certain that he had not and would not annihilate the village. Who can annihilate the memory of a homeland alive in minds and hearts? By the end of the novel, we realize that Mary is a symbol of the Palestinian mother who carried the Nakba on her head, swallowed the bitterness of defeat, and fought it with memory. The woman who carried the key to her house and could not find a necklace more valuable than it to adorn her neck until she handed it over to the one who memorized the story. Children and grandchildren after her, Maryam is a model that the writer wrote about to achieve the second goal of the comedy project, saying: “If we record the Palestinian story, we actually forget it, then everything we forget becomes the property of our enemies. -- $c Souk Okaz.

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