Maximum speed zero

Author's name: Ashraf Al-Ashmawy

It tells the story of an Egyptian family who lived in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo many years before the July Revolution and suffered for many years afterward. Strange events and complex characters whose destinies were intertwined until the end. Between fact and fiction, Al-Ashmawy narrates the threads of the story and weaves its chapters slowly. He tells us stories of childhood, love, adventure, escape, crime, conspiracy, and political struggles with religious authority on a solitary seat through an accurate portrayal of a society whose sun set many years ago, but whose warmth has not yet cooled.
A novel that resembles the trunk of an old tree, with its roots deep in the land of history. The author taps on it with a light pickaxe, from which the characters of his novel are formed, its stories flow, its images are drawn, and its events move in a high scene with the voices of its four heroes, and on the margins of clips from Egyptian radio over thirty years, until it takes you to the end to be surprised that the story has not yet begun, and that everything that has passed may have been just an introduction, and that the rest of its events are still ongoing.