The Book of Sand

Interesting Facts

• Every story in this collection shimmers with the mystery of time and infinity, like grains of sand slipping through one’s fingers but never truly vanishing.
• One of the central images—a book without beginning or end, whose pages cannot be counted—becomes a metaphor for humanity’s thirst for knowledge and fear of the unfathomable abyss.
• The motif of the labyrinth, so beloved by the author, takes on new forms here: the narrative becomes an intellectual quest, where each turn of thought reveals new horizons.
• In these stories, reality and fiction are intricately woven together, and the boundaries between dream and waking dissolve, inviting the reader to participate in the mystery of world-creation through words.
• The collection was written in the final years of the author’s life, and its lines are imbued with a special clarity and wisdom of a mature perspective, suffused with the light of memory and a sense of approaching eternity.