The road to Tel Mutran

Number of pages: 416 pages Publisher: Al-Rafidain Printing With Ali Badr, we walk since the train's ascent from Baghdad towards Mosul and then "Tel al-Matran" until reaching the departure of the train and continuing to run and search for an unknown missing person symbolically embodied in the character of a priest named "Isa al-Yasoua." A fantastical novel with enchanting atmospheres and chapters. A city in northern Iraq inhabited by Assyrian Christians, connected to the protagonist, who is a dismissed soldier from the army after the end of the Gulf War, on the recommendation of a Turkmen lady, daughter of a poet, whom he meets by chance at the British consulate library. The events of the novel unfold from the first step of this person inside the city, causing great panic among its residents, and everyone flees from him. The hero lives in a strange city surrounded by secrets, black prophecies, due to war, conflict, destruction, and death. He experiences strange events and becomes part of them against his will, becoming involved in a murder he knew nothing about. A novel featuring exceptional and strange characters: intellectuals and idlers, monks and heretics, prostitutes and virgins, Christians and Muslims, Kurds and Arabs. A miniature Iraq with its bloody conflicts and diverse cultures, a story about crime, sex, death, war, politics, religion, God, crime, poetry, and pleasure. A fantastical novel in its atmospheres, detective in its plot, philosophical in its idea.