Novels under 50 dirhams

After the Kids Are Asleep Author: Omar Taher     "I am here because I knew no other place to hide! After I killed my wife, I fled, running until I hid in a ship I thought was abandoned. The port was busy with...

In a detective literary style, Ibrahim Eissa addresses the mysterious assassination of the president of the republic and how power was transferred to another person, circumventing and deceiving the will of the people. This novel was written in 1999. Ibrahim Eissa says that it...

Khalwat Al-Ghalban (The Poor Man's Retreat)   Author: Ibrahim Aslan     The book features a collection of interesting literary articles by the author Ibrahim Aslan, through which he captivates us with his easy and simple style. The book aims to introduce us to...

The Sergeant's Downfall   Author: Kamal Rahim     I am Adel Hassan Al-Atfi... My father was, in my eyes, a lord of the universe. It was hard for me to see him small, broken, and like a criminal in the hands of a...

Memories and Baked Goods   Author: Ahmed Youssef Al-Dhafiri   Teaser Summary of the Novel:After losing his twin brother in a tragic accident, Fares tries to hold onto what remains of his soul by pursuing his brother's dream and opening the bakery he had...

When Fate Attacks Us   Author's Name: Sara Okra   When fate attacks us... it leaves us with only two choices: to break, or to fight until the last breath. True love and bloody revenge... between a past that haunts her and a fate...

Jaffa and Al-Ablaq   Author's Name: Maram Jarallah   Al-Ablaq Between black and white, I found Al-Ablaq, I found myself in a gloomy, intensely dark spot. I found myself carrying the burden, carrying its weight and the weight of the form, an agonizing weight,...

The First of October   Author Name: Haneen Abdulwahab Al-Nuwider   The First of October... the day when the beginning and the end intertwine, reminding us that the autumn leaf that fell before our eyes did not perish. Instead, the breezes of October carried...

Blind Spot   Author: Aisha Muharraq   Yara finds herself in bewilderingly repetitive days, where notes written in an obscure language appear and vanish as if they never existed. Between a mysterious professor who silently observes her and a sister who hovers on the...

Mutterings of Nobody   Author: Wafaa Ahmed   This book is neither a novel in the traditional sense nor a collection of fleeting thoughts.Rather, it's a passage of reflections and open-ended questions, texts that sometimes take the form of a story and sometimes fragment...

The Fourth Passage    Author: Khaled Al-Tuwaili     Deep in sleep, there is a hidden passage accessible only to those who carry sincere longing in their hearts. This is a novel about four siblings whose hearts were lost on life's paths, separated by...

Awar and the Sword of Fire   Author's Name: Rawane Essam Abu Talib   The novel tells the story of Awar, a hybrid girl, half human and half jinn, who discovers her true identity after seeing her father's true form, and the truth about...

The Legacy of Imagination    Author's Name: Mohammed Hosawi     Yahya inherits his grandfather Yousef's dream, carrying within his heart a love for stories and the magic of imagination, as he embarks on his own journey in search of himself.His dreaming heart clashes with...

A Boy and 4 Girls Author: Magdy Naguib "A Boy and 4 Girls" is the only novel by the great colloquial poet and plastic artist, Magdy Naguib. It's a novel so enjoyable that you'll reread it, just as you'd re-listen to the songs of...

The Doer   Author: Hamdy Abow Gliel The novel "The Doer" won the Naguib Mahfouz Award in 2008. The award citation stated: "The novel builds... a new, different Cairo, the Cairo of the 'Fawa'liya' (doers) who built it and forever changed the face of...

Beyond Paradise   Author: Mansoura Ez Eldin “Mansoura Ez Eldin's pen is like a knife in its fierce depiction of reality. In Beyond Paradise, Mansoura Ez Eldin relied on a fertile artistic technique and utilized it skillfully, resulting in a novel that borders on...

The Keeper of the City's Key   Author: Dr. Osama Allam   "A captivating novel with intense epic scope and a compassionate, encompassing embrace of life and living beings." – Dr. Mohamed El-Makhzangy What if you possessed a key that opened every door in...

A Spider in the Heart   Author: Mohamed Abouzeid   "In a world where the lines between reality and imagination blur, and the 'game of life' intertwines with the 'game of the novel.'" In "A Spider in the Heart," the winner of the Sawiris...

Hal wa Terhal (Settling and Traveling)   Author: Youssef Ziedan   "Hal wa Terhal" (Settling and Traveling) is a collection of fifteen short stories by the author "Youssef Ziedan," marking his debut in the short story genre. It combines striking realism with symbolic magic,...

Camilia's Specters   Author: Noura Nagy   Camilia clings to her story, but no one believes her. She saw her aunt dissolve before her in the mirror, while her family sticks to their version: her aunt fled the house to escape a life burdened...