معبد أنامل الحرير

The narrator is a manuscript, left on a boat in open water when its author, Rashid al-Gawhari, jumped overboard to escape the men hunting him. Carried across the Mediterranean, it passes through the hands of Qasim, a dealer in old manuscripts who is searching for Rashid, of Somali pirates, and of Mehrit, an Ethiopian girl who boarded the wrong ship. Meanwhile it recalls its writer's life: a boyhood in the Emirates, youth in Egypt, then Germany. And all who open it read the tale on its pages, of copyists who flee the City of Darkness, ruled by a fanatical group under a chief censor, and keep books alive in a city underground. The voyage, the hunt for the writer and the hidden city wind around each other.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

527 pages in the original

First published

2015 by Difaf

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9786140212664 (original)