Ahmed Amran - Az last lunch - ÜKH 2017
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I believe that life is all about walls. People are mostly born and raised between walls. He struggles for a long time to break down the walls around him. After that, he drives for a long time to have his own walls. When he is happy, he does not perceive his own walls around him, in which case they function as a spotlessly clean windshield, protecting him, but through them he sees everything. If he's unhappy, he only sees the walls themselves, he doesn't notice the space between them, and over time he discovers new walls in his partner, in himself and in everything." Ahmed Amran
The Yemeni numbered writer, who works in Hungarian, gives us a taste of Arab thought, style, and story-telling in his short stories that flow into each other, sprinkled with oriental spices, traveling, and philosophical in tone. Through the stories and dialogues of the characters in the novella, Amran sensitively sheds light on the points of connection and divergence between different cultures.
This series of short stories is a strange marriage between the Hungarian language and Arabic literature.
As a non-native Hungarian speaker, Amran rethinks Hungarian words, through his brave puns and surprising use of words, he sometimes reveals nuances and hidden beauties in the Hungarian language that we - native speakers - often don't notice.