Bøger af Omar Youssef Souleimane

A rare narrative of gay love in the Arab world that travels into the lives of a group of spirited youth during the Syrian Revolution. Youssef's mother has always told him that he is named after the biblical prophet Joseph who had the power of foresight. But when Youssef participated in the first demonstration in Damascus in 2011, he felt that the uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime after forty years of silence and fear was "a miracle more powerful than that of the prophet." While Josephine, a charming young Alawite, gathers in her home a group of youth to fight for their visions of a promising future, a forbidden love story unfolds between two men, Youssef and Mohammad. Meanwhile, young Khalid's love for Josephine is brutally interrupted by the agents of the oppressive regime. Homosexuality clashes with tradition, emancipation with persecution, and feelings with loyalties, leading to an upheaval that sweeps away the destinies of the young as well as that of an entire nation. Omar Youssef Souleimane's eloquent novel is not only a narrative of the Syrian Revolution; it is also a story about inter-generational conflicts, rebellion, and liberation. With intense, poetic prose, he brilliantly captures the indomitable yearning for freedom that, despite all obstacles and setbacks, always survives in a hopeful person's heart until it's attained.

Det er en bog om en rejse – mellem to lande, to civilisationer, to sprog– En bog af en (ny) franskmand.Det er et farvel til barndommen som det opleves af en lille syrisk dreng der bliver opdraget i en ”normal”, salafistisk familie til at blive en lille terrorist ligesom hovedparten af drengene i sit miljø. Det er også et farvel til diktaturstaten Syrien, et farvel til det arabiske sprog og til Orienten gennem en detaljeret beskrivelse af de begivenheder som får drengen til i første omgang at overtage sin opdragelsesidealer, men til senere at forkaste dem, blive dissident og slå ind på flygtningenes lange vej mod Frankrig. Den verden han beskriver, er ikke præget af Vesten, men gennemsyret af Islam, med islæt af følsomhed og humor.Omar Youssef Souleimane er en syrisk journalist ogdigter. Han tilbringer sin ungdom i Saudi Arabienhvor han bliver opdraget efter Koranens strengesteprincipper, alt imens han i hemmelighed læser Éluards og Aragons digte. Han kommer til Paris som flygtning, og her lever han i dag. Den lille terrorist er hans første roman.”Både rystende, humoristisk og poetisk fortæller den lille terrorist om de psykiske konflikter der har udviklet ham fra radikal islamtro til streng ateisme.”– Le Point”En ydmyg og chokerende selvbiografisk beretning.” – PAGE des libraires