• Parts: 1
• Subject: Novels
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: First
• Dimensions: 14 x 20 cm
• Number of Pages: 336
• Weight: 365 g
• Language: Arabic
• Author: Ahmed Abu Salim
• Publisher: Fadaat Publishing

"The Zero Sense" is the debut novel by writer Ahmed Abu Salim, following his poetry collections, "Strange Blood," "Memoirs of a Knight in the Time of Fall," "The Owl on the Remains of Sodom," and "I Sensed a Fire."

The author narrates "The Zero Sense" in a prose style, moving away from poetry. The novel's events unfold between 1982, after the Palestinian resistance's departure from Beirut, and the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.

Set in Beirut, Amman, and Damascus, the novel offers a new and different perspective on a critically important phase of Palestinian history. It is written in an elegant language and a style that blends modern narrative techniques with classical writing. It also portrays the social, economic, and political life in the camps in a very bold, engaging, and exciting manner. The novel avoids the pitfalls of praise and glorification, nor does it slide into condemnation and offense. Instead, it attempts to examine and present reality in a unique and different way, inferring outcomes through hundreds of threads woven from events that are intensely real and wild, appearing like a crossword puzzle, as the author mentioned in his dedication to the reader at the beginning of the novel.