Mohammed Hasan Alwan
NOVELIST / SHORT STORY WRITER
Saudi Arabia
In his first novel, novelist Mohammed Hasan Alwan gives us a variation on the “family, I hate you” theme, dressed as a cruel tale of a midlife crisis and a satire of affluent Saudi society. Like Proust’s madeleine, a beaver emerging from the waters where Ghalib is fishing brings up memories, which he reviews with cynicism, of his life in Riyadh and his family surroundings. With humor and self-deprecation, the author tells a story of immigration and highly unusual morals.
