Shay' min al-Hawa' al-Mun'ishشيئ من الهواء المنعش

Translation to Arabic of «Coming up for Air», a classic comic novel first published in 1939, by English author George Orwell, the author of «1984» and «Animal Farm». It is a story about the everyday struggles of the common man and a satiric look at the trappings of middle-class suburbia.

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.