Merchant of stories

The texts of this collection are different from Hassan Abdel Mawjoud's previous stories, some of which are dozens of pages long. Heroism here is for intensity and brevity, for silence, not speech. They are wonderful stories of innocence, death, loss, pain, hunger, and finding humanity even in evil. It is an abundance of tenderness and cruelty, sarcasm and humor, in amazing writing that Hassan Abde...