Publisher | RIYAD AL RAIS |
ISBN 13 | 9781855132726 |
ISBN 10 | 1855132729 |
Book Description | A novel by Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, banned for a period from circulation in Saudi Arabia, tells the story of a group of young men with different orientations and ideas who live together in Cairo during their university studies there. The novel details the state of intellectual currents among Arab youth during the turbulent period of Arab history 1948-1967. The novel achieved wide circulation and had multiple editions, and was allowed to be sold in Saudi Arabia after being banned. In the Freedom Apartment, the symbol roams... The characters emerge from their names... and the Freedom Apartment from its place... and the events from the angles of its crisis and the Freedom Apartment becomes a place for a spot... and the characters are creatures that are not specific, they can take any name, and the events can be in any time, and the apartment is any country... Despite all of that, Al-Gosaibi wanted it to be the Freedom Apartment that carries its content in its title... It is the freedom in whose climate the events took place... the freedom of those who thirst for it... To what extent did Al-Gosaibi succeed in liberating them to discover the extent of their understanding of this freedom through their exploitation of it? |
Author | GHAZI AL QUSAIBI |
Edition Number | 5 |
Publication Date | 1999 |
Number of Pages | 516 |
FREEDOM FLAT