"A French painter left Paris for Cairo on a winter day in 1867. That was the beginning... the beginning of the novel 'Life Is Not Always Rosy.' The characters you will meet believe their story and have faith in it. I also invite you to believe in it."
In this astonishing novel, the author Rasha Adly takes us through museums and palaces, where we meet emperors and kings, concubines and slaves, celebrities and vagabonds. She transports us to Cairo, the wondrous city where everything and its opposite coexist, where religions merge and cultures unite, and where people of all colors and types intermingle. We delve deep into the human soul, both good and evil, at once. Only then can we truly understand that "life is not always rosy."