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Written By: Khalid al-Syaghi
Article Date: May 17, 2008 - 6:12:43 AM
Yemeni author Murwan al-Ghafori
Kod blue is the new novel by the Yemeni author Murwan al-Ghafori and was published recently. This is the third novel for al-Gahfori, yet his first published work. The novel comes with great praise as it recently won the Naji Noman Prize for literature. The cover of the book was also designed by Yemeni artist Khalid al-Sinawi.
The premise of the novel revolves around a vehicle telling of its experiences at the interval between life and death. The novel’s dark tone takes the dead’s impressions and their aspiration for death with a preference of death to life and the dead to the living. The story takes a smart, expressive manner that takes down the barriers between the philosophical and mythical sides.
The story commences and ends in a balanced lyrical spirit, mingling mythology with fact, and art with science, recalling the human audience ranging from those of Samuel Coleridge and Wolfgang from the West and Amro’-Alqis and Trafa ibn al-Abd from the East.
The Cairo based Dar-Alktob book stores publishing house will hold a signing event in Cairo for the new novel, which will be new to the Egyptian cultural community. It is going to celebrate al-Ghafori’s winning for Naji Noman’s prize, as well as celebrating his third poetry collection titled “On the Way for a City, not for People.” Al-Ghafori has two other poetry collections, named “Liali,” or nights, and “Fi intithar Nobo’t Yathib,” or waiting for Yathrib’s Prophecy. Both collections were published by the General Writers’ Authority in Sana’a. Syrian cultural week in Yemen
