A genuine joy is bound to fill you when you start reading the short story collection 'The First House' by the storyteller Amal Radwan. Perhaps the main source of this joy is the writer's keenness to present her twenty-two stories through the eyes, feelings, and interpretive ability of a child, who understands the world around her through an imagination and comprehension appropriate to her age. She appears like a camera lens, merely recording what happens without any comments, judgments, or explanations, simply receiving information to shape her own world.

Critic: Mahmoud Al-Ghitani

• Author: Amal Radwan
• Publisher: Dar Fadaat
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Number of Pages: 112
• Language: Arabic