صالة أورفنيللي | أشرف العشماوي

Every story has a beginning, a story, and an end, and the life of every human being is a novel that is its hero and through which the world is formed around us. With an amazing construction, Ashraf El-Ashmawy presents his latest novels, the stories of his three heroes that tell their lives, but they constitute the chapters of the larger story, the story of the auction hall in which the author breaks into a new fictional world, revealing its secrets, scenes and ways of deception that take place in it, and the role of the Jews of Egypt in controlling it since the royal era until the seventies . The threads of the heroes’ tales intertwine and their human relationships become complicated, so that Al-Ashmawi smoothly attracts its edges and flows to tell the most accurate details of souls and collides with conflicts that lead to crimes. Is our life like an auction? What would be left of our humanity if each of us became a piece displayed in an auction hall waiting for his turn?