Wind Traps by Ibrahim Nasrallah… a novel that blends past and present, part of the Palestinian Comedy Project, is distinct on both artistic and thematic levels. The Palestinian narrative doesn’t merely engage with local issues, but also contemplates them alongside global concerns and the meaning of human existence through a text that transcends boundaries. The story is a long one, revisited within a surprising love affair. Everything is different here, in this space spanning from 1930 to 2021, with intersecting events unfolding in geographically disparate yet fundamentally interconnected locations, from Palestine to Britain, to the Arab world. Characters haunted by a past they conceal, and others determined to become more transparent after each passage of resistance, alongside horses that experience what humans experience, resisting cages and traps with instinct and the logic of their freedom. Three times, three places, and three paths, all narrated by the omniscient narrator, who is one of the most prominent characters in this novel, embodying his anxieties, obsessions, dreams, strength, weakness, and doubts. He is like an orchestra conductor, incarnate as never before, a being written with questions of eternity and mortality, love and death. He retraces the paths of humanity on Earth, becoming a character extending into the trilogy of Al-Zawi Al-Aleem’s “Wind Traps,” one of which is a novel whose themes, times, and places differ, each independent of the others. This trilogy unfolds across a history stretching from the beginnings of humanity, unified by the omniscient narrator’s tangible presence, transcending his traditional rank. It is the novel of this narrator, the novel of the horses and women who swallowed the bitterest roles, and the novel of Palestine as a profound part of the world’s questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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