Through thirteen short stories written by the pioneer of the short story, Yahya Haqqi, he presents to us a set of social concepts and values through his penetration into the depths of the human soul, which he dealt with in his stories: the poisoned heart, death, thinking, and sarcasm, the man with the black face, Muhammad Bey visiting his estate, and Abd Al-Tawab Effendi, and the media, O Effendum, and the copper bed, and the spiral staircase, and Soso, and a generator without chickpeas, and did I not tell you?
In this book, Yahya Haqqi chronicles the modern Egyptian short story art, and writes about the novel "Zainab" by Muhammad Hussein Heikal, and about Muhammad Taymur, Mahmoud Taher Lashin, Issa Obeid, and Tawfiq al-Hakim.
