Behind the glasses

Today, as part of our global short story series uniting North and South, Literatur.Review presents two haunting pieces from Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, the acclaimed Saudi novelist and journalist from Riyadh. In Behind the Glasses, Al-Mohaimeed explores memory, masculinity, inheritance and illusion — through Prada sunglasses that lead nowhere, and a dead father’s thick medical lenses that promise vision but deliver only vertigo. Between humor and existential unease, these stories from Saudi Arabia question what we truly see — and what remains when shops vanish, fathers die, and only memories persist...
(Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish)
https://literatur.review/en/literature/behind-glasses

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