"Syria, my love"... Ziad Abdullah is clashing with the tragedy of an entire country
A new collection of short stories by the Syrian writer Ziad Abdullah was issued by Mediterranean Publications - Italy, titled “Syria, My Love.” These are stories in which small lives intersect, harshly, with the tragedy of an entire country, in a dense fabric of scenes, characters and events, for a life the writer wanted to He makes every minor detail in it, sprawling, raging among memories, epitaphs, hope or something of it.
Ziyad Abdullah, one of the heroes of his stories, takes as an excuse to prevent crumbling things from vanishing, everything has become destroyed, and is about to vanish, and to show us disgust as a genuine human motive, according to the conviction of the fake jellyfish maker. Or that smell that does not leave the novelty, but rather goes after it while the streets of Germany have turned under her feet to the streets of Aleppo. There is great devastation to the hurt even of the songs of the morning radio and the flowers on the balconies. And the question becomes, “Did you cook beans with oil at five in the morning?” To an existential question, and we may meet around with “a cat who was likened to him as a tiger”, then night comes and after that another night, there is no day in between. Darkness after dark. Memories of camps, arrests, atrocities, and original motives for suicide in different places, gathered only by being away from home, or being lost in it, before sadness overwhelms us, transparent and real, through the joints of each story with its great end.
Reading one story from Ziad Abdullah's new collection of stories, instills in the reader the act of identification with the characters of his heroes.
Fragile characters in love, violent in anger, but lost between the two.
Ziad has this amazing ability to use the single word in its place, disguised by the voices of his heroes, transforming all the war’s conflicts and tragedies into daily Syrian legends worthy of writing.
They are elaborate stories in which the absurd appears logically, and in a surreal way the opposite is true, in a world that keeps collapsing around us, a world we think we know but we keep getting to know it anew.
Ziad Abdullah, here, is realistic, sarcastic, throwing us into a storm of stories that conspire against us, as if we are in an epic movie, knowing in advance that its ending is undoubtedly great.
“Syria, My Love” is a new collection of short stories by the Syrian writer Ziad Abdullah, which was issued in 144 pages of middle pieces, as part of the “Patents” series, which the house issues and triumphs in for poetry, short stories, and texts, in celebration of these literary genres.
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