In your hands, dear reader, is the first Arabic translation of a famous and landmark novel, presented to you by Afaq Publishing and Distribution for the first time, which is the novel "The Day of the Locusts." The difference between "The Day of the Locusts" and virtually all other Hollywood novels is that the subject of its author, Nathaniel West, was not the stars, but rather the centipedes who were crawling on the outskirts of the film capital. Although Hollywood has built and relied on its ability to anticipate and satisfy the taste of the public, the public in Hollywood itself has never seemed a suitable subject for novelists, even the exceptional writer of this novel, Nathaniel West, from New York. Of all the novels about Hollywood, "The Day of the Locusts" remains the sharpest in its tone, the most glowing in its characters and events, and the most surprising in its emphasis and concern for the whole. American novelist, unenthused by the quality of everyday life in the USA, Nathaniel West, was born in 1903 and was destined to see more in life than others saw. Specifically, he was able to see life in all its rich and absurd detail, until his own absurd death in a car crash at the age of thirty-seven while rushing to attend the funeral of his friend, the novelist Scott Fitzgerald, in 1904.