The other town

"The plane door opened and I saw silence. It is a rare thing to feel the air conditioner air in your back, while your chest and face face the sun, and you have not yet left the plane door. But the one behind me gently pushed me, so I took the first step. I had barely left the small staircase and my feet touched the ground, when I felt like I was... "Earth and space are one thing... hot and empty, and I had to walk the short distance to the airport lounge." *** The experience of alienation, or voluntary exile, of a young Egyptian man who immigrated for work like millions of others in the seventies of the last century, in which he vividly describes the conditions of immigrants like him, including Egyptians, Americans, Koreans, Pakistanis, Arabs, and others. As well as the customs of the city's residents, in an atmosphere of exciting humor. How do the novel's characters end up with strange fates in which tragedy and comedy mix, and in a language that is the daughter of a vast place devoid of anything but silence?

براهيم عبد المجيد كاتب مصري كبير. تُرجمت له العديد من رواياته إلى لغات أخرى، وفاز بأهم الجوائز المصرية والعربية . وهذه الرواية فازت عام 1996 بجائزة نجيب محفوظ من الجامعة الأمريكية في عامها الأول وتُرجمت إلى الفرنسية والإنجليزية والألمانية .