dogs barking outside the window

Author's name: Sobhi Musa

The novel begins with a mysterious mission, as the narrator is assigned to monitor Hisham. Thus, without any introduction, fast-paced events begin, filled with characters that overlap and stories intertwine. The narrator takes us on his journey to the city center, where Hisham and his colleague Jihan work. We go with him to Angrita, the narrator’s residence. It is a village that has decided to transform into a city, an ugly, random place that many do not know about its actual existence, and to Sambo Bar, the place of daily gatherings. The story revolves around an intertwined narrative structure that grows the more we delve into the details. Writing with a breathless, escalating rhythm, Sobhi Moussa was able to attract us from the first lines, in a strange mission that entangles us with him and the heroes of the work, going and returning from the center of the capital to the outskirts of the city, in a journey across the city culturally before it is a journey of place.