Shabbúra és boira, al Caire

A doctor in her fifties, with her life marred by unconfessed facts, finds some striking notes in the margins of a book that have just pushed her towards Cairo. As a cooperator, to practice Arabic and to get to know the author. Almost as a diary, he describes in a very personal way, sometimes with humor and sometimes with despair or exaltation, life alone under the dense pollution of Cairo, at the time of the frustrated revolution under Sisi's mandate. , and the harshness of the refugee world. An unexpected love story acts as a lubricant to untie knots, and allows him to approach the inhabitants of the banks of the Nile without idolatry or north-south distances. The relationship will bleed, however, because of the lacerating need to choose. Anna Cabot made a stay in Cairo in the winter of 2018 to work for refugee children and to consolidate the Arabic language, with a commitment to often write to close friends with the day-to-day ets and uts. He wanted to cook his first novel by filling the story with this first-hand material, collected with an acute capacity for observation.