Half a distance

"I have thought about her a lot since the beginning of the trip and I still do, since she allowed me to ride next to her and she did not have to do so, and during all the travel, hardship, food, and conversation that passed, why did she choose me alone and not the many other people who were filling the parking lot? Amal, is that her real name or what? Between the soldier "Muhammad"'s eagerness to catch up with the date of his return to the army, and what is happening far away in Cairo, the events of this novel, which recalls the recent past, take place to the lived present, with sophisticated language and distinctive condensation. So that the reader comes out in the end enjoying this human condition that fluctuates between impossible love and fleeting whims... in that cloudy distance between possible death and lurking life!

محمد صالح البحر.. روائي وقاص وكاتب سيناريو. صدرت له مجموعتان قصصيتان: «أزمنة الآخرين» 1999م، «ثلاث خطوات باتجاه السماء» 2008م. كما صدرت له أيضًا روايتان: الأولى «حقيبة الرسول» 2010م، والثانية «موت وردة» 2013م.