Before evening

"She told me about many separate things that had no connection between them, the colors that I like, the movies that I prefer to watch, some fleeting memories of the first days of our marriage. We played chess and I defeated her twice. Did she plan that defeat to make me feel strong in front of myself? What does that mean for a forty-six-year-old man? "I cannot put this age into a specific box, neither am I young nor am I old. Sometimes the line between the two stages dissolves, and sometimes it conflicts, resulting in some confusing and shameful behavior." *** A journalist in his mid-forties, with a specific vision of people and things. What if he was forgotten beyond his control? He decides to sit down at his papers and write down everything he knows, and everything he thinks he knows. But he discovers that what he saw in front of him on paper constituted a second life that had nothing to do with what he actually lived.

عمرو العادلي، كاتب مصري وباحث في علم اجتماع الأدب، صدر له خمس مجموعات قصصية منها: "حكاية يوسف إدريس" 2012،"عالم فرانشي" 2016، كما صدر له خمس روايات منها: "الزيارة" 2014،"رحلة العائلة غير المقدسة" 2015 "اسمي فاطمة" 2017..وكتب رواية واحدة للأطفال، وقد ترشحت في القائمة الطويلة بجائزة الشيخ زايد لأدب الطفل 2018، كما حاز على جائزة ساويرس فرع كبار الأدباء عن مجموعة "حكاية يوسف إدريس" 2015 وجائزة الدولة التشجيعية عن رواية "الزيارة" 2016 وجائزة اتحاد كتّاب مصر عن رواية "رحلة العائلة غير المقدسة" 2017.