Based on a dream mentioned in passing in the great book Interpretation of Dreams attributed to Imam Muhammad ibn Sirin,
Mansoura Ezz El-Din builds a captivating world that merges the past with the present and in which the boundaries between self and other disappear.
A journey full of questions and doubts, during which the hero Hisham Khattab searches for something in others, and traces himself outside of it, hoping to catch a glimpse of it in everything else, while the writer extracts from the words and lives of others miniatures that form the features of his life.
In the orchards of Basra, time disappears and distances narrow between heroes stuck in a game of mirrors that resonates with the novel’s saying: Time is a flowing river and space is an illusion. Our true place is the home of our souls.