Book Description | In the year 1091, "Kush Ko" arrives in Cairo from Nubia with his uncle to learn the basics of service at the Shepheard's Hotel. Between the corridors of the ancient hotel and the streets of the capital, full of noise and life, Kosh meets contradictory characters and lives adventures no less rich and strange, to realize that the world is not as simple as he imagines.
Kush Ko, who loves reading books and magazines and is obsessed with knowledge, searches for his place in this world that always tells him that he is just a servant.. but he feels deep down that he is much bigger than that..
In his fourth novel, Walaa Kamal takes us to Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century, to see the Khedivate, affiliated with the Ottoman sovereignty, under British protection as we have never seen it before. Through a charming narrative that does not fall into the trap of deceptive nostalgia, and a huge momentum of events, we live the story of the amazing life of Kush Koo, with its adventures and amazing historical figures, and a captivating descriptive experience that sheds light on the brutal domination of the white colonizer, so that history in this novel turns into a rich dramatic space that does not stop taking our breath away until its last pages. |