The House of the Dove Ibn Azraq’s Riddle

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The House of the Dove: Ibn Azraq’s Riddle is a bold experimental novel by the Kuwaiti writer Saud Alsanousi. It opens a door to a different narrative world, defying traditional novelistic forms and revisiting questions of identity, writing, and reality. The novel revolves around two fictional characters: Manwal, a writer struggling to finish his text, and Arzal, a character he tries to define through fragmented mornings and enigmatic diaries. Manwal writes about a man he doesn’t know, in a text that shifts between the Old and New Testaments, finding himself in an existential dilemma that pushes him to the brink of suicide. The stories and narrative layers intertwine in a text that seems to write itself, where we don’t know who is the writer and who is the written, making the novel a profound meditation on the act of writing itself.