Gharas City: The City of the Contenders

About this book

Between the silence of green fields and the roar of cities that never sleep, the threads of "Gharas City" are woven — the city founded on the dreams of shepherds before it was swallowed by the ambitions of farmers and the plots of politics. Here, in the heart of this decades-long struggle, we breathe the scent of earth mingled with the fragrance of vengeance and hope. The tale begins with "Nouso," the young man who woke to find himself before a heavy inheritance he never saw in the falsified history books taught in the lecture halls of Gharas University. Through the tales of his grandfather "Nixon," Nouso discovers that the city he lives in is no mere geographic spot but a bleeding wound in his family's history: land discovered by the first shepherds with their sweat, then wrested from them by deceit and bribery for the benefit of the tyrannical "Berg" dynasty. But behind the grandfather's placid features, addicted to watching the news, lies a great secret: a secret combat organization, electronic pirates, and snipers lying in wait for injustice from behind the curtain. Under the pressure of natural disasters striking the city and the clash of generations, the shepherds' grandchildren must decide: will history remain the lie of the strong, or will the city of the contenders be reclaimed — with bullets if necessary, and fidelity always? An epic of land, memory, and the price of a falsified history.