What remains of a man when his village is deserted, his fields are set ablaze, and he is the last one left to guard the silence?

In the ruins of Al-Mansoura near the war-torn Quneitra, an old man remains as a solitary pillar of defiance while the world around him crumbles. Despite the mass exodus following the Six-Day War, he refuses to abandon his ancestral soil or succumb to the military governor’s pressure to join the displaced in Damascus. The Amputee is a hauntingly lyrical novella that explores the visceral, unbreakable bond between identity and geography. Through a poignant encounter with a young resistance fighter and a final, desperate struggle to save his burning wheat fields from the mocking gaze of occupiers, Mamdouh Adwan crafts a powerful allegory of steadfastness. It is a heart-wrenching tale of a man who chooses to die with his roots rather than live as a fragment of a lost history.