In this beautiful novel, which was published for the first time in 1978, the language in which the great writer “Khairy Shalabi” reveals a page of the secrets of the Delta countryside in the early fifties. Where he weaves a rich world about “Talaat”, who is looking for his father, “the judge”, who visited their town for the days when he married the mother, “Tawheeda”, then he disappeared and never appeared. The police and the people traced the bag of “Hajj Salim,” the contractor of the nosepiece, which disappeared from the house of the village mayor, with the enormous “treasure” it contained, most likely of hashish, after the muezzin, who was expected to become the only witness to the thief, was killed on the same night. You get to know these peasants, you belong to them, and you get to know who they really are. “Khairy Shalabi” tells us about the peasants’ oppression of power, its cunning, and the corruption of the effendiye who work for it. To a magical world that we would like to stay in despite the pain in it.
