The secret society of citizens | Ashraf Al-Ashmawi

The heroes of this novel are unconventional characters, but we encounter them every day. They live in the space between reality and imagination. They remained silent until the author untied their tongues to tell what exhausted them from suppressing it for many years, what hurt them and what made them happy, their dreams that need no explanation, and their ambitions that cost little. In his new novel, Ashraf Al-Ashmawy raises important questions about the value of truth and the power of falsehood's influence on marginalized citizens trying to live. Through an engaging narration of beginnings full of hope and confused endings, most of them ended up crossing the bridge of ambition into crime out of compelled human motives. After each of them thought they were a member of a secret society unknown to others, they discovered they were just a number in a long queue waiting for their turn to receive their share, while at the same time paying others regularly for years of their lives and days without realizing.