This novel was chosen from among the 100 best Arab novels. The novelist Muhammad Qutb is considered a symbol of Arab narrative creativity. He has enriched the Arab library with many works of fiction and short stories, in addition to his distinguished contributions in the field of applied literature.
In this novel, which is considered the jewel of his work, the real reality intersects with the symbolic, and takes the reader to unlimited mystical horizons, within a transparent, poetic linguistic fabric that reveals the hidden secrets of the soul, including its contradictions.