A dialogue between a naive child and a cultured cat

Author's name: Ahmed Bahjat

The great writer Ahmed Bahgat envisions an imaginary story between a child and a cat. Through the dialogue between them, we are exposed to various topics and many ideas, such as mercy, love, and Sufism, as well as the secrets of cats and the peculiarities of their lives. The cat, whose dialogue with the child we follow in this book, is a wise and knowledgeable cat, whose wisdom reveals the sweet philosophy and wisdom contained in this novel. The cat has an amazing ability to raise questions in the child's mind and a desire for knowledge in his soul. Despite the child's advancement in age with the successive pages, the cat remains present in his soul, planting questions and philosophies that the child did not understand at the time, but later came to understand and become aware of. This novel includes discussion of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Tolstoy's literature, and the poems of the Mathnawi, as well as glimpses into the lives of domestic animals.