Sharjah: Ashraf Ibrahim
Storyteller and novelist Wafa Al-Amimi translates excerpts from social life with aesthetic sensitivity with great precision in her works. As she narrates what is going on in the corridors of life and its hidden folds in a way that reveals a deep vision of family issues in a bold way, she highlights the thorny moments in the lives of those she narrates about with great poetry. She writes down the events that live in her memory that have come to her over time, and she has a record full of creative ideas. Which deserves to be crystallized in works of fiction or short stories, and what gives it sufficient capacity to express the human problems that surround people’s lives is that it possesses vast imaginative energy, so it shapes its narrative in an implicit manner that encourages diving into discovering the details, and then complying with what it narrates with skill and creativity. Its narrative scenes are Published before, she showed her tendency to verbal condensation, while showing clear connotations that express the values and traditions of society. Sometimes her short stories are a whisper, and they express the reader to the intuitive questions of life that relate to passionate concerns, and at other times they give the narrative another flavor that contains heat, release, and wildness.
She has two novels in her literary credit, “Ra’i Ghawali” and “The Prince and the Fahim,” in addition to a collection of short stories titled “Out of Reach,” and she continues to move with her creative ideas toward embodying facts and events from her own literary perspective, which preserves her privacy in the cultural scene.
These days, Al-Amimi is working on a new novel called “And I’m Alone,” in which she announces other narrative techniques in her career, which she takes as a different method in her narrative flow. It succeeds in embodying an appropriate image for the heroine of the novel, even if the events surrounding her are mixed and express concerns that reveal the extent of the bitter events that she went through in her life. The heroine is a young woman who narrates about a tragedy she experienced within a wide network that brought her together with others who are close to her in the family environment. Although the novel is not complete, according to Al-Amimi, it achieves qualitative leaps in the method of narration in accordance with the favorable circumstances for the heroine of the story, who is characterized by the audacity to say everything she wants about her heavy concerns, and the troubles she faced as a result of a major problem she encountered at the beginning of her life. The heroine finds herself. In the stage of adulthood, she wanders with her memories of the places that shaded her life with gloom, but the social context in which the novel takes place makes the narrative enjoyable, and highlights the logic of life in dealing with tragedy with what is tolerable and what is unbearable.
In another narrative context, Al-Amimi is focusing on completing a new collection of short stories for which she has not yet given a name. As she has completed approximately five short stories, she is trying to recall her memory, which is full of details, in formulating topics that represent reality without detailing the events, in a way that gives the story vitality and suspense. Human problems emerge in this collection of stories, such as: hatred, grudges, good and evil, in line with the overall vision of some societal issues that occur every day on the page of life, but with a special vision and free treatment in the narrative.
