Book Description | Every story has a beginning, a tale and an end, and every person's life is a novel in which he is the hero and through which the world around us is shaped. With an amazing structure, Ashraf Al-Ashmawy presents his latest novel, the stories of his three heroes tell their lives but form the chapters of the larger story, the story of the auction hall through which the author storms a new fictional world, revealing its secrets, backstages and methods of deception carried out in it, and the role of the Jews of Egypt in controlling it from the royal era until the seventies. The threads of the heroes' stories intertwine and their human relationships become complicated, as Al-Ashmawy pulls their edges smoothly so that they flow to tell the most minute details of souls and collide with conflicts that lead to crimes. When the threads approach their ends and with the famous third auction chime that announces the death of one desire and the birth of another, surprises explode to expand our minds to questions as much as our eyes open to facts.. Is our life like an auction? What would remain of our humanity if each of us became a piece displayed in an auction hall waiting for his turn? |