The silence of the killers

Book name: The Silence of the Killers Author: Tarek Imam Publisher: Al-Shorouk Summary: I am the killer who risks his life to leave the world his poems as he wishes them to be: written by an unmarked hand, with the blood of victims, at the expense of a hardworking sister... A serial killer, wandering like a ghost in the neighborhoods of Cairo, enters their houses, hiding behind his job in the census, carefully selecting his victims, like choosing words for the poem "Salem," the killer. He is also a poet, who, with each victim he kills with his right hand, writes a poem with his left hand. to complete his strange collection. In "The Silence of the Killers" — which has won more than one prestigious award and still enjoys critical and popular acclaim — Tarek Imam offers a deep, reflective novel with a detective plot, exploring the secret unseen depths of the big city. He moves between abandoned cemeteries, the birthplaces of forgotten saints on the outskirts, the basements of poor houses and their dangerous roofs, and the corridors of neglected workplaces; to reveal a new face of a city united despite its crowded inhabitants, employing deep symbolism, fantasy, and Sufi text. Imam reads the city in moments of murder that — ironically — awaken it from its death, redefining it and the individual with a single stab of a knife.