الساقية لا تزال تعمل إلى الآن بأرضنا القبلية، البشر هم الذين بادوا! قضوا كلهم!
The waterwheel still turns to this day on our southern land. It is the people who have perished; every one of them is gone.
From the novel Unforgettable Days · Chapter 11
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.
Unforgettable Days
Unforgettable Daysلا إشارة ولا اسم يدل على اللوكاندة، لكني أعرفها مثلما أعرف كف يدي وبِتُّ فيها ليال كثيرة، فعلى مدار ثلاثة أجيال لم نكن ننزل إلا بها.
No sign or name marks the hotel, but I know it as I know the palm of my hand; I spent many nights there, for across three generations we lodged nowhere else.
Unforgettable Daysومن يومها دخلت قلبه.. أحبني وأحببته..
From that day I entered his heart. He loved me, and I loved him.
Unforgettable Daysروحه في الأرض، يحبها مثلما يحبنا، وإذا تفشت الدودة في أعواد القطن سنة من السنين أو خابت زرعة من الزراعات، كان الحزن يخيم عليه ولا نستطيع ساعتها الاقتراب منه. خمسون سنة والأرض عينه وعافيته، حتى أصابه التعب.
His soul was in the land; he loved it as he loved us. If the worm spread through the cotton stalks one year, or a planting failed, grief settled over him and we could not go near him. Fifty years the land was his eye and his strength, until weariness overtook him.