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Author's name: Faisal Al-Suwaidi

Nothing disturbed the calm until they found her body deep in the well. They said that the jinn killed her to take revenge on her husband, or perhaps she killed herself, but no one considered that perhaps a human had killed her, and they kept quiet. Her husband went mad after that, and no one understood him anymore. In a remote mountain village, the events of our story take place. It is not a story about individuals, but its story. The story of the village. It began there, deep in the mountain, far from the eyes of the city, alone except for its people. They wake up at dawn, pray, sit in the simple café, exchange the little news they have. The sun rises, and each one sets off to fulfill his need. A friendship develops between two young people, both with their own dreams; one wants to become a writer, the other a detective. Years pass, and they achieve their dreams, but the world is not the rosy picture they had imagined. Then who is this strange old woman who never changes her place? Why does she sit like this, motionless, as if she and the mountain are made of the same material? And why does she know everything and understand everything? What is the close connection between the remote Gulf village and the world's tallest capitals in South America? The novel's fabric intertwines reality with fantasy, friendship with crime, sarcasm with seriousness, love with animosity, and death with life!