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The Secret and the Hidden

其他書名	Volume I of Ibrahim's Eyes
出版	Blue Atlas Press, 2025-04-30
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / General
ISBN	9798992211009
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=X4k80QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Secret and The Hidden is the first of a two-volume work entitled Ibrahim's Eyes, which is targeted to readers of adult literary fiction with a global perspective who may be interested in the background of cultural dissonance infusing anti-colonial sentiment among non-Western peoples. It is the first novel in English to explore the historical factors leading up to the outbreak of violence in the Arab Spring. It is a thoroughly researched and engrossing tale with a fascinating cast of characters and dramatizes the tragic cost of lies and their consequences over the course of two generations in a post-colonial state. The Secret and The Hidden takes place in a fictional country in French North Africa, where we are presented with a puzzle: Why is the protagonist, Samiel (sic), an erudite retired mathematician, and a legend in his own time once revered for liberating his country from colonial oppression, now, twenty-five years later, on trial, being prosecuted in the World Court for crimes against humanity? And as the pieces of that puzzle are put together, the novel brings to light an in-depth psychological portrait of the architect of one of the most violent revolutions of the latter half of the Twentieth Century-as well as the dubious motives of certain official entities calling him to account so long after the fact. And it is heartbreaking when we learn of the tragic effects of his actions on those closest to him, most especially, Ibrahim, his son (the protagonist of volume II.)