The incident of Aish Al-Sarayya - Hamour Ziyada

The events of the novel take place in a rural Sudanese city. A former government employee returns to his city to face the new life, after his wife left him and he was dismissed from his job. He re-familiarizes himself with the city and its people. He finds himself – despite his caution – part of a local social conflict about the Seraia bread. The employee/narrator tries to distance himself from small problems which he considers unworthy of his previous professional and work status. Despite his contempt for the general situation in the country. But he finds himself forced to engage in a conflict he considers humorous, as he observes the changing circumstances around him. In a journey of rediscovering his relationship with his hometown, the narrator tells us multiple stories about the city’s residents and the surrounding villages. We learn about the city’s history and the strange stories of its people, such as the woman who did not marry because she dreams of a well-known actor coming to marry her. At the end of the novel, the former employee returns to his work and to the capital, leaving the small city in its conflicts after realizing that he no longer belongs to it.