Homs-Sana
The reality of the Syrian youth in the time of war and its consequences and how their dreams took a different direction was the content of the novel When the Two Seas were Captured by the young writer Ahmed Yazbek.
Yazbek’s novel tells the story of a young man who studied marine engineering and fell in love with a girl and they dated for marriage. When the patriotic duty called upon him, he valiantly received the honor of martyrdom, like thousands of young men who have never been stingy in sacrificing everything in defense of the homeland and its security.
The novel, located in a hundred pages of medium pieces, issued by Al-Ghanim Publishing House, was described by critic Dr. Nazih as very good. In its eighteen chapters, “Yazbek” showed a literary culture that he mastered with verbal shifts that mixed between poetic language, legend and imaginative images that attract the reader strongly.
For his part, critic Muhammad Rostom expressed his admiration for the novel, because, as he sees it, it faithfully and honestly reflected the reality of the Syrian youth immersed in the love of his country and always ready to sacrifice everything for it, and expressed the national cohesion that we are proud of, praising the writer who, in his opinion, succeeded in tightening the dramatic line with an elaborate plot and narration that was dominated by poetics.
Regarding the novel and the motives behind its writing, Yazbek, a dentist, explained to SANA that his book is the second edition of his book after his collection of stories, “Salty Applause,” which came as a result of his life experience and the worries and emotions engulfed in sadness by the tragedies of war in various aspects of our social, cultural and intellectual life.
Hanan Sweid
Follow Sana's news on Telegram https://t.me/SyrianArabNewsAgency