Azhar Girgis in The Candy Maker reshapes the features of characters who have been transformed by wars and transformed them into defective beings who seek salvation and do not achieve it. Characters who try to resist repression, subjugation and exploitation, but who often end up either prey to horrific nightmares or marginalized in countries with social and political systems that do not have enough... Tools to help her escape horrific past traumas or exile traps. These stories are reproduced from the memories of the victims of the Iraqi wars and a bloody dictatorship, but Jarjis does not hesitate to weave them in a sarcastic style that often forces the reader to laugh at times and cry at other times, leaving him the freedom to interpret and formulate questions that strive to penetrate a horizon full of wailing, curses, and stories in which the real is intertwined with the magical. Jarjis's stories are characterized by fantasy often mixed with reality, and this undoubtedly guarantees their individuality within the contemporary Arab narrative scene. In his stories, the writer evokes the paradox that the Iraqi person experiences through patterns and characters that move between two spaces: the space of the homeland and the space of exile, or the diaspora, as many like to call it. The "here" represents the exile that the writer lives in, and the "there" means the homeland afflicted with the fever of chronic violence and free death.
