Najwa Bin Shatwan takes the Arab reader to the heart of Italy
"Rome Termini" .. About the life of the diaspora and concessions
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The Libyan novelist Najwa Bin Shatwan travels the Arab reader to Italy in her new novel “Roma Termini”, issued by “Ruwaiyat” one of the Kalimat Group companies, to tell the story of the immigrant “Natasha”, who works in a house for three Italian elderly women, who live in the wealth of capitalism that She gave them a seemingly affluent life, by which they dominate the rest of the peoples of the earth, but the children did not gain anything from it, as if they were in a parallel internal migration.
The novel appeared in its first edition at the 30th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which concluded yesterday.
The writer begins her work with Karl Marx’s saying: “Capitalism will cut down the tree if it cannot sell its shadow.” With this phrase, she paves the way for her work, which spans over 181 pages. Ben Shatwan presents a novel that looks at the contemporary West through the eyes of a new immigrant, a look that is not devoid of Western satire , which lacks a humanistic perspective on life and human movement and forced movements on the map.
From the work environment, Natasha says in a monologue reflecting on what is happening around her: “The death of an old woman here is a very bad event, not only for the children and grandchildren who live on their retirement, but for immigrants like me in the first place.
Whenever an elderly person left, the life of an immigrant woman came to an end in search of life.”
It is a novel about the life of the contemporary diaspora, and about the concessions that man is forced to make, in an age when the victim is always to blame, not for the sin she committed, but for her identity and who she is.
The novel does not only tell about its heroine, but it depicts an area of the present-day world with its ever-shifting human map, not that of geography with its fixed colors. Migration is an act that does not stop, and it actually begins at the hour of reaching the diaspora, whether it is a country or just an idea.
• The first edition of the work issued by "Novels" appeared in "Abu Dhabi Book".
• “Whenever an elderly person dies, the life of an immigrant woman who comes here in search of life stops.”
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