The owners of the hoopoe

Author's name: Sufyan Rajbadar Publisher: Maskelliani for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: A lawyer searching through writing for immortality, shedding his black cloak of justice to achieve a dream hanging since childhood. His path intersects with Sufi searching for himself between the alleys of the ancient city of Kairouan and its mysterious spiritual labyrinths. So how did the two paths intertwine to flow into the sea of one story? And does the dream of writing justify the theft of others' lives? Hodhod's owners: A novel sleeping on a newspaper in a man's drawer, swallowing a story experienced by its owner under the sky with a wounded foot chained by the illusion of truth and love. It is a fabric of reflections, sarcasm, and stories—stories of a village with no reality other than what its inhabitants project from illusions, and a city whose lights have gone out, and a free lawyer who will choose his old walls and Sufi prisoner who broke his walls and now knows what he wants and whom to seek refuge in. Sufyan Rajbadar hands you the keys to the story and provides what you need to solve the puzzle with clarity beyond clarity, then involves you in investigating what you thought you knew, as he narrates the story and then retracts it from you. Isn't the core of the novel hunger— the lawyer’s hunger for knowledge, the Sufi’s hunger for truth, and the reader’s hunger for a possible ending? And behind them all, an author who does not want to be satiated from manipulation and play, and how can one who has a soul hungry be satisfied?