Maryam's Maze

This novel continues the narrative approach that "Mansoura Ez-Eldin" developed in her first collection of stories, in which the dividing line between dream and reality, illusion and truth, and imagination and lived experience, all of which are multiple and even complete facets of her experience, fade away. But this approach gains here a unique dimension that makes her one of the most concerned among the new generation of female writers with what she called the existential or ontological obsession, in which the heroine re-examines the vocabulary of her life in order to discover her identity, or to comprehend the truth of her personal history. Dr. Sabri Hafiz - Egyptian critic. Her "Maryam's Maze" addresses very central issues of the modernity experience in a large city like Cairo: isolation, pollution, bureaucracy, madness awakening like Kafka's Gregor Samsa, in a world she can no longer recognize. Maryam struggles to regain any semblance of her previous life. It is an enchanting book. Bolzotungi, an American novelist.