Cairo mannequin

In his new novel, Tarek Imam transports the reader to Cairo 2045. The project is a model of the former Egyptian capital from a quarter of a century ago, its essence being the revival of the city's memory. And because the question does not save from the intersection of reality — its fate being erased — with imagination — which invades the places that create their inhabitants; you will search for yourself in the mirrors of the story. What happens if you discover that you are merely a fictional character controlled by another fictional character's fate? Living in a model larger than the model you considered, for many years, your city? You will inevitably be either Origa or Nood or Billiardo, and you will continue reading a novel that is a Matryoshka of identical cities, every time you tear apart a city, an opposing city faces you. And the reader may wonder about the harsh condition of existence: can an imaginary place erase a real place to this extent?