The Curse of Awareness

About this book

In a world where the edifices of material civilization collapse before nobility and ethics, "The Curse of Awareness" launches as a resounding cry against the rubble of silence and constraints. It is not merely a story but the "narrative of salvation" the writer is forced into to open a path for free ideas in an environment that strangles imagination and assassinates its spark. Hamoudi Bibah writes these lines while the world lives painful moments, when every human becomes a wolf to his human brother. The novel presents to us the character of Amsinaw, a professor of political sciences who finds himself an easy target for a "free slander" from his students, in moments of "infinite delight in torturing the other." His only sin was the content of his university lectures. He is dragged, his steps heavy, to the courtroom on a charge of "incitement against the political system," only to discover that the judge who will sentence him was one of the students he had treated kindly. Here the tragic conflict between the pain of memories and the misery of reality materializes, and the truth of the deep state that "believes in the single opinion" is laid bare, employing the media to "flip the facts" and turn "hell into paradise." A biting political novel about awareness as both curse and redemption, and about the price a free word pays in a closed room.