Al Barman | Ashraf Al Ashmawi

The heroes of this novel are a strange mixture of different personalities socially, culturally and financially, carefully chosen by the author and diving into the depths of each of them. They are all gathered in the ancient neighborhood of Zamalek and Qasr El-Nil Street in central Cairo. Most of them meet in a famous bar on the Nile in the same ancient neighborhood, where Ashraf El-Ashmawy circles us in a strange world with its minute details. The amazing one, using a smooth aesthetic language and a wonderful narrative style to present heartbreaking human tragedies and exciting rapid events punctuated by strange and sudden crimes that end with strange endings. He was hidden from the lives of politicians and influential people, corrupt officers, former ministers and half-famous people. Lost young men, fallen women, lost others, and high segments of society who recently surfaced, the author highlighted them to see with him the life of bats and what happens in the corridors of bars, and how the bartender is the focus of all their lives and knows their secrets, so he becomes a drinker for them, and you will read between the lines of this novel how We drink each other a mixture of shining promises and false feelings until the wine plays with the heads and the symptoms of false ecstasy appear until the defining moment comes when all the bartenders and drinkers wake up and discover the truth bare from all falsehood like sleepwalkers on their way, never knowing that they will wake up in a moment determined by fate alone, they always realize it too late.