Oblivion Museum Novelist, Mahmoud Abd El Ghani, began with a strong start regarding the world of academia and a history conference that gives the impression that we will be reading an Egyptian version of Dan Brown’s. When the writer chose two parallel lines of narration between life in that non-existent village in the past and the present time, where the search continues for it.
The disappointment came when the characters of the mysterious forgotten village became the centre of the world, existing for thousands of years.
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El Ghani decided that Jesus Christ, Noah, Che Guevara, the French Expedition invasion of Egypt, the Mamlouk Sultans have not passed by it and yet they exist in the question raised about the village, adding to the absurdity of the novel.
The writer takes the reader to another conclusion that the village changes its place every now. Then in order to remain hidden from the evils of this world and destroying that argument, saying that no one changed the village’s place, according to one of the elders.
He chose female characters to be in the main character path, but they could have been men easily without any influence on the sequence of the novel or its events.
The main conference is about the British Empire and how it still tries to control its ex-colonies through history and culture, studying them as if they are still colonies belonging to the crown.
An intelligent term used in the novel was “colonisation by remote control or long distance colonisation, terms that could have enriched the novel if elaborated.
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