Doorways

Doorways by Dr. Yousef El-Kaddar The five doorways of the book are full with strands of stories that no one can say where the fact ends and fiction/fantasy begins. Doorway A myth of an elderly hunchback named Khandaburro Derwish descends from the sky, leaving behind his irreplaceable footprints on the desert landscape. Years later, a mysterious trip by a family to his grave triggers a sensational crime. Doorway An apparition suddenly appears in the dark of night, as a woman, when Joseph visits his Uncle Al. A ghost remains an international mystery. Doorway A grave of a donkey, alias Pojangles, becomes a mystical power for healing; while the wife to the donkey's owner appears as a snake-haired woman. Years later, a street dancer, alias Shishbani, surfaces as Pojangles in disguise. It is an epic fantasy. Doorway Joseph has a strong sense of the unseen presence in the house of Batnoons, as he keeps his eyes shut and his ears radar ready. Doorway Joseph's tears bleed black on the calamitous memory of little Rashida.