Qamar Al-Zaman

Qamar Al-Zaman: A Novel by Ali Mahdi explores the dynamics between three fictional social classes differentiated by race. These races are the gray black and spectral-eyed peoples. In the case of the black-eyed race there is only one Qamar Al-Zaman. The black-eyed race voluntarily ends their life at 25-years of age and Qamar Al-Zaman buckled down his fortitude and harnessed his ambition not to carry on the tradition. He wanted to live and live happily. He found life was met with overwhelming challenges when the color of your eyes prohibits you from venues relationships education and employment opportunities that are enjoyed by the hierarchy of other eye colors to an extent. Qamar Al-Zaman spends a great deal of time energy and effort coveting what others have and the failure to acquire these things torments him as his 25th birthday looms.A political satire story that is easy and fun to read is a hard find--Mahdi found it. -ReedsyQAMAR AL-ZAMAN is quite a dark layered book coming across as something of a morality tale. Comfortably readable in an hour its one of those narratives thats both stark and simplistic but also subtle in its affecting feel. -IndieReader