A new novel by Ahmed Al-Malik

Sudan Events – Magda

Jabra Publishing and Distribution House announces the publication of the novel “Return to Fatima’s School” by Ahmed Al-Malik.
It is a novel from and about the wounded Sudan, the country of Tayeb Salih, which was and still is the birthplace of creative people, and whose roads still lead them north, carrying with them the concerns of homeland and identity.
Its events take place in the atmosphere of war and tragedies that Sudan has witnessed in recent years and are still continuing, and its reflection on a young child who has not yet enrolled in school. The war separates him from his family and he continues to dream of bringing them together, and of his responsibility to bury his father, and on his journey he is exposed to many horrors, as wartime is cruel, childish and merciless. His paths intersect with some good people who are brought together by tragedy and brought closer together.
For the back cover, a paragraph expressive of the novel was chosen:
“The sight of his father lying in the open would haunt him all day. He would wake up terrified at night some days, when he would see his father walking over the sand dunes wearing white robes similar to a shroud, and drops of blood falling behind him in a long line, until his father turned into a small white dot in the sea of ​​sand.
Sometimes he would wake up to a dream in which he saw his father coming from a far away place, standing in front of him and saying to him, reproaching him: How long are you going to leave me like this, bleeding on the sand? When will you come to bury me in the cemetery with my neighbors?”
The front cover included a picture of a girl with African features, named Fatima, as the novelist called her. She needs to read the novel to find out with him what her school is and the meaning of returning to it.
Ahmed Al-Malik is a Sudanese novelist and storyteller residing in the Netherlands. He is a graduate of Cairo University – Khartoum Branch. He has worked in teaching English language and literature in Sudan and volunteering with humanitarian organizations in social service. He is the author of many novels and short story collections, some of which have been translated into English, French, and Dutch. Among his previous books are: Autumn Comes with Serenity, Seven Strangers in the City, The Time Before the Antonov Raid, The Slave Hunting Season, The Priests of Amun, and Dreams of the Sleeping Queen.
The novel is 192 pages long, and Jabra House will provide a free copy of the novel to the first twenty interested readers in Jordan who can pick it up from the house’s location in Jabal Amman this weekend, so register your interest.