Solo

Author's name: Nour Abdel Majeed

Bayada died, and her husband, Imran, and their daughter, Badria, moved from Malawi in Upper Egypt to Cairo.
In a building where most of the apartments were empty, Imran worked as a janitor. He injured his hand and was treated by Marwa, the wife of the engineer Wahid. Since that incident, Imran has been torn between his conscience and his attachment to Marwa. As for Badriya, her life became intertwined with Yasser. She waited for him to come home from school every day so he could sit with her on the back stairs and teach her English. Badriya infused the building's residents with positive energy. She was the reason Nadia, the building's owner, came out of her difficult psychological state after the death of her husband and the estrangement of her son. Badriya became the spirit whose name pulsated through the building, which had been engulfed in sadness for a long time.
The novel captivates with its beauty, sincerity, and delicate treatment of human relationships. While it tells stories closely related to a specific social and cultural reality, it transcends this reality to a broader and more expansive horizon, earning it a distinguished place in modern Arabic literature.