The brave of Al-Atoof

Book name: Fatawat Al-Atouf Author name: Naguib Mahfouz Number of pages: 120 Category: Social novels Publication year: 2024 Publisher: Diwan for Publishing Brief about the content of the book: This collection of stories was published in 2001, although its stories were published in cultural magazines during the thirties and forties, and the collection includes nine stories that carry many paradoxes that succeed in astonishing the reader whenever they delve into their events. In the story "April Fool," the hero faces a financial crisis, and his aunt refuses to help him, thinking he wishes for her death to inherit her wealth. He agrees with a nurse to delay the medication she takes until she dies sooner, in exchange for a reward he gives her after inheriting the fortune. Also, in the story "The Price of a Wife," we meet the husband who knows about his wife's betrayal, and he asks her lover for the price of their intimacy, giving him a riyal, which leads the wife to commit suicide after he sarcastically asks her to tell her family the story of this riyal.