Please translate this arabic into english

I'm sure

Adnan: is this your book?

Noman: yes, this is my book

Adnan: are you sure?

Noman: yes, I am sure.

Adnan: is your book red?

Noman: yes my book is red

Adnan: there you go, have a look is this your book?

Noman: I'm sorry. This isn't my book

1one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.2 this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.3 i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.4 with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.