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Pushing Darwin's theory of evolution to its limit, the novel imagines a world after humanity, seen not through machines but from inside human beings. Its characters lose the hair on their heads and bodies, then one by one their fingers, toes and limbs, and with them their capacity for love, hatred and anger. Their change mirrors that of Cairo, an ancient city about to disappear, between the Manial district and the City of the Dead, where old cemeteries are bulldozed for a new city, the dead run from their tombs and phantoms walk the streets. Among its people are a civil engineer, a footballer and a fruit seller who informs for the police, and different times run side by side.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

258 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Egypt

First published

2025 by Hayat Publications

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9781998800476 (original)