Waada: Part Two

About this book

In this remote homestead, far from "the cities' hell" and the job's shackles swallowing a lifetime, "Hakim" and "Waada" decided to begin a tale no one had written before them. The matter was no mere move from one house to another, but a crossing from modern slaveries - the slavery of money, job, and stolen time - into a space where the sun dwells, and where the earth is plowed with hope before plows. In the second part of this journey, "Hakim" the academic-artist appears, trying to rearrange his life's arteries anew, finding in Waada's body and inspiring soul an atelier that never rests, and a laboratory for his ideas about "the end of art" and post-modernity. As for "Waada," she is no longer a woman's shadow; she has become the word, the writer, and the partner sharing "Hakim" the toil of planting two thousand forest seedlings, and sharing with him the deep reading's silence on long rainy nights. Between discovering old archaeological jars under the earth's soil, and translating art studies to send to Rome, writer Marwan El-Alan weaves a text breathing pure air. It is a novel about "the planet of freedom" every human dreams of, where cooking food becomes a rite of ascension, and swimming at dawn's light becomes a declaration of rebirth. "Waada" is no mere heroine's name, but a promise of salvation from everything that fetters our souls, and an invitation to live a life worthy of the human being as the Creator intended it, not as society's constraints shaped it. Do you dare enter this "homestead"?