The time of the white horses

A great epic novel in which the poet and novelist Ibrahim Nasrallah goes to an area that the novels that dealt with the Palestinian issue with such comprehensiveness and breadth have never gone before, presenting a counter-narrative to the Zionist narrative about a land without a people for a people without a land! The events of the novel begin in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, leading up to the year of the Nakba, discussing the major joints of this tumultuous time period with extremely numerous events, and the bitter conflict between the Palestinian peasants on the one hand and the leaders of the countryside and the city, the Turks, the British, the Jewish immigrants, and the Arab leaders on the other.
It is the story of a real people of flesh and blood who used to live on a real land that has a heritage and details that are too many to be counted and more than to be forgotten, and an existence full of noise, tension, joy, tragedies and sorrows. A great epic novel says: The Palestinians have always been here, they were born here, they lived here, they died and they live ..
The protagonist of the novel says (I do not fight to be victorious, but so that my right is not lost. It has never happened that a nation remained victorious forever. I fear one thing: that we will be broken forever, because the one who is broken forever cannot rise again. Tell them to be careful You shall not be defeated forever.)
As it always happens in the works of Ibrahim Nasrallah, the epic, the folk tale, the oral testimony, the song and the cinematic language meet in this novel, which is heard and seen. And serenity, mercy and cruelty, while the horse mythology illuminates the deepest corners of the souls of the characters and the great values ​​of a very vibrant society in its rituals, tales and songs. And if every great novel has its own law, then this novel has its own vision in dealing with all of this.