Narrative Reading of A mask in the color of the sky

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Professor in the Department of Persian Language and Literature, Kharazmi University,, Tehran, Iran.

10.22080/ltcat.2026.28207.1005

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In the Arab world, and especially in the twenty-first century, the novel has taken the place of poetry in literature, and has become the "Arab Diwan" and the dominant literary genre in it. Numerous fiction awards and the high number of novels published every year from Muscat to Rabat confirm this. The latest novel that won the prestigious World Prize for Arabic Novel in 2024 or the Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction is the novel A mask in the color of the sky by Bassem Khandaqchi. Using the descriptive analysis method and narratological approach, we explored this novel from several angles: narrative techniques; internal monologue; character and characterization; Historical reality and uncertainty to show how the author has been able to combine the personal with the political in innovative ways and what new narrative forms he uses to explore three types of consciousness: self, other and world, and to explain the complex and bitter reality of family breakdown, displacement, genocide and racism, and to delicately intertwine the threads of history, myth and the present in this narrative

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