July 2020
My Father’s City
by Kafa Al Zoghbi
It is the city where Nabil came to bury his father. It is the city that his father abandoned after he failed it, and he kept longing for it. In it Nabil met Sana, and went with her on a path whose horizon in the distance seems narrow, but it expands as they progress. And there he met the ghost of a man who could have been his father: This man did not fail the city, did not desert it, and held fast in its prisons; a tormented ghost wanders in a dark city shackled by the constancy of time, reason and language. Kafa Al Zoghbi: A Jordanian novelist who has published several novels.
