The Final Adventure

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“I was utterly filthy, inside and out. I admired and was pained by Chen Lau’s stance, for she had triumphed over me, and I had triumphed over her. That was the irony—her cunning versus my naiveté, I who claimed to possess the experience to excel in dealing with women! Chen Lau stripped me bare, even of my fig leaf. She spoke from my very core, for she was within it. She said, ‘You don’t love me, you lust after me!’ And indeed, I didn’t love her, I lusted after her. She reminded me of my patriotic duty, something I, the self-proclaimed freedom fighter, had forgotten.”

Hanna Mina travels to China to weave the events of “The Last Adventure” there, high in the fragrant mountain range. In the vicinity of the Buddhist temple, the voices of characters he selected from various countries rise, and events unfold, blended by the novelist with a socio-political and humanistic dimension. Yet, however expansive the narrative space and however diverse the atmospheres into which the novelist weaves his ideas, the human experience remains the most prominent and central theme in Hanna Mina’s work.