The Crossing Gate

About this book

Have you ever contemplated that pale smile a young man wears at life's threshold as a last armor before the fall? Behind ancient walls and in the stillness of villages preceding the storm, there are tales not told, but buried. "The Crossing Gate" is no mere novel you pass by, but an honest mirror confronting us with questions we long fled from: why does one we love choose to leave in silence? And how does a small "grain" become the only remaining gate of escape from a reality that failed to contain their moaning? The journey begins when Ghayth, the journalist laden with the city's questions, returns to his roots to trace his friend Saif. Saif who departed leaving behind a riddle pure science, Dr. Salih's science, cannot explain, nor can the myths of old Umran contain it. In this work, the writer weaves with astonishing literary skill threads in which psychological issues intertangle with intellectual occupation, and sorcery wearing the robe of purity with the voice of the homeland calling its sons. It is a journey into the labyrinths of the human psyche, and a bitter struggle between the.