Stealth (novel)
| Author | Sonallah Ibrahim |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages |
Stealth is Sonallah Ibrahim's ninth novel, and he is regarded as a literary star of the 1960s. The writer tries to highlight the key themes that filled his head and his concerns in this work. This novel was released in 2007 in Cairo at the Arab Future House (Dar Al-mostqbl Alʿrby).[1]
Plot
In this novel, Sonallah Ibrahim portrays Egypt in 1948. This novel is a story of a young child who tells everything about himself and his father, who takes care of him in Cairo, in the words of a stealthy narrator. The narrator takes us back to his childhood when he was five years old and describes, in the most accurate details, what he witnessed and heard. His eyes are insightful into the tiniest things; he observed and captures the scenes, tiny details, and stores them in his inner mind. He observed everything around him – people's movements and private lives, his school classes, street habits, the market, public squares, and mosques – in his time, and with an attractive and detailed description that transports you to that era and lets you live the moments.[2][3]
Stealth is a child's habit, something the father is unaware of in the novel because of his son's young age, especially when he takes his son with him wherever he goes. The child witnesses all of his father's interactions with people about politics, art, literature, women, and the social condition in Egypt during wartime.[2]
Political theme of the novel
This novel focuses on many significant topics, perhaps most importantly, political topics, where the political theme illustrates the course of that time, in terms of the monarchy and their immersion in the pleasures of life while hunger was spreading and Palestine was being lost, in times of British and French dominance over customs and traditions in Arab countries.[3]
Sonallah Ibrahim shows us through his novel "Stealth" the bitter realities of society and a government that is filled with hypocrisy, falsehood, and deception, as told through the tongue of an innocent child.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2014-03-27. Retrieved 2022-06-11.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "جريدة الرياض | تلصص على التلصص لصنع الله إبراهيم؟!". web.archive.org. 2021-06-22. Archived from the original on 2021-06-22. Retrieved 2022-06-24.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 ""التلصص" رواية المصري صنع الله إبراهيم: عودة إلى رائحة المكان ومرابع الطفولة | القدس العربي". web.archive.org. 2019-11-19. Archived from the original on 2019-11-19. Retrieved 2022-06-24.CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
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