Novels under 50 dirhams

Lujain   Author: Muhammad Al-Rabah   Grandfather Saeed tells his granddaughter Lujain the story of Jalal, an only child who has no relatives. One day, his mother leaves him alone in a strange place, and thus begins the five-year-old boy's journey to survive in...

I Testify Against the Wind Author: Ghada Al-Samman "I love you because with you I discovered something new, strange to me, called joy... All those I loved before you made me a cage, a whip, a bridle, scissors for my wings, and a muzzle...

I Declared My Love to You Author: Ghada Al-Samman April unleashes its cry into the air... a new spring arrives... April reclaims its kingdom... the earth's bosom throbs, opens, blooms, the dust sighs with the scent of orange blossoms, a hot, dense, evocative scent...

You Are From Me Author: Nour Abdel Meguid   There is always something big in our lives that we postpone, something we live in hope of achieving and know that it gives us life, but it remains postponed! Despite the need, despite the passing...

The Last Symphony Author: Ashraf El-Ashmawy The novel takes place during a critical period in contemporary Egyptian history, through the eyes of a protocol department employee who worked for years with Presidents Sadat and Mubarak, getting close enough to become a witness to the...

The Bartender Author: Ashraf El-Ashmawi In "The Bartender," author Ashraf El-Ashmawi writes: "I know my customer's taste from their eyes, from their body movements, from their tension, their nervousness, and their calm. Each has their drink, and each has a way of making it....

Toya Author: Ashraf El-Ashmawy "Toya" is an Egyptian novel where various characters, nationalities, and cultures meet. It intermingles many ideas, meanings, and principles, blending delicate emotions and feelings with desires and whims often dominated by evil. The author, Ashraf El-Ashmawy, carries us on the...

Shepherd Dogs Author: Ashraf El-Ashmawy .. This novel captivates you from its very first chapters. El-Ashmawy excelled in describing that period, successfully building its world with historical foundations and imaginative capabilities that add to its historical dimension. He surpassed in portraying characters, the geography...

The Coptic House Author: Ashraf El-Ashmawy The novel revolves around a judicial investigator trying to track down criminal offenses in a small village in Upper Egypt, only to be surprised by something more dangerous: murders without logical motives, suspicious suicides, and the burning of...

Zafarana Author: Huda Al-Nuaimi I took out the white book containing the dried rose. I began writing Shahla's memoirs, from the moment my feet touched this land I loved, until the palace of imagination collapsed, with strands of my black hair falling on my...

Ink Inscription Author: Ali Al-Ameri "Ink Inscription" comprises dialogues with seven poets, exploring their writing references, views, their perspectives on poetry, and their life experiences, despite their diverse cultures, upbringing, achievements, cities, and travels. However, the common denominators in these dialogues are childhood, love,...

The Diaries of Adam and Eve Author: Mark Twain If our parents Adam and Eve had kept early diaries, what would they have written?! Mark Twain decided to take on the task for them, presenting us, with his exquisite language and satirical style, a...

What Men Live By and Other Stories Author: Tolstoy This book contains a collection of short stories selected from the works of the Russian author "Leo Tolstoy," whom some critics consider one of the greatest novelists in all of human civilization. The stories in...

The Return of the Young Prince Author: Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers A man traveling alone through the Patagonian desert encounters an exhausted young man on the road and decides to help him by giving him a ride. Little does he know that this mysterious young...

Night Flight Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Night Flight) is considered one of the classics of 20th-century French literature and one of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s most important works. Upon its release in 1931, with an introduction by André Gide, it secured a prominent place for...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain Author: Charles Dickens Pay attention to who is sitting next to you first. Is there no one? Look again, for it might not be your own shadow. If you believe that humans are the only creatures in...

The Carmel River Author: Majd Kayyal But before I tell the story of the river, I must set the record straight for those who refuse to have this man's story written and want him forgotten. Especially those who argue that I have no right...

The Overcoat and The Nose   Author: Nikolai Gogol This short novel combines two of the most marvelous stories written by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol: The Nose and The Overcoat. In the story The Nose, we follow a sarcastic and bizarre adventure about...

A Lost Lady Author: Willa Cather This novel is set in the American state of Nebraska, specifically in the town of Sweet Water, when the adventurous early Americans arrived with their dream of the New American West. They began to forge a railway path...

Madam Marta Oulie Author: Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was a Norwegian writer and novelist born in Denmark. Her family later settled in Norway, and she moved to the United States in 1924 to escape Nazism. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...