The Yatr

Description

What kind of love is it that Hanna Mina draws you to, to this sea stretching across the horizon and across life itself? He casts the line of his imagination to pluck from its depths the sweetest treasures—the most beautiful stories—shaping them into phrases and transforming them into events that surge through the pages of “The Yatr,” whose protagonist is Zakaria al-Marsanli. He speaks, he narrates, he converses with the sea and with the fish like a philosopher: “I will rip open your belly, and I’m sorry… You don’t feel what I’m doing now… After death, the body feels nothing… And I don’t respect death in the body. It’s all the same. Let them cut me, Zakaria al-Marsanli, into a thousand pieces after my death, just so they may respect me in my life. But my life is beautiful, like a clear night.” Philosophy and imagination, and a story from which wafts the scents of the sea… the scents of life… planting in the mind beautiful images at times… somber images at others… but always and forever colored by the hues of Hanna Mina’s imagination, overflowing with the depths of the sea.