Kush Co

Author's name: Walaa Kamal

Kush Ku by Walaa Kamal... In 1901, Kush Ku arrives in Cairo from Nubia with his uncle to learn the basics of service at the Shepheard's Hotel. Between the corridors of the historic hotel and the bustling streets of the capital, Kush meets contradictory characters and experiences adventures no less rich and strange, only to realize that the world is not as simple as he imagines. Kush Ku, who loves reading books and magazines and is obsessed with knowledge, searches for his place in this world that always tells him he is just a servant... but deep down he feels he is much more than that. In his fourth novel, Walaa Kamal takes us to Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century, to witness the Khedivate, subservient to Ottoman sovereignty, under British protection, as we have never seen it before. Through a captivating narrative that doesn't fall into the trap of deceptive nostalgia, and a tremendous amount of events, we experience the story of Kush Ku's amazing life, teeming with adventures and amazing historical figures, and a captivating descriptive experience that sheds light on the brutal dominance of the white colonizer. In this novel, history transforms into a rich dramatic space that never ceases to take our breath away until its final pages.