The Red Hotel

Author's name: Imad Madin

Novelist Emad Madin takes us back to the streets of Alexandria to see the Red Hotel and walk through its corridors with "The Baron" and his neighbor "Umm Nesma," who controls the hotel and its residents. The hero takes us on a long journey, coming from the Gulf after several fraud operations through which he was able to obtain a sum of money that qualifies him to live in luxury, to settle in Egypt and begin a new journey of fraud. The adventure takes him where he gets involved with "The Baron" in an endless story about the history of the hotel and "Badi'," who once lived there. We take long adventures with him between Cairo, Alexandria, and the Greek islands, searching for a trace of the hotel and its future, while "The Baron" continues to tell and boast about the history that never stops despite all this travel. Who is "The Baron"? What is the connection between the Red Hotel and Farid Shawqi and Mahmoud Al-Meligy? And how did the hero escape all those tales and adventures fraught with deception of everyone around him? In the rooms of that old building, we know all the answers.