The bride | Novel

The events take place on New Year's Eve... in "The Bride", a luxurious restaurant that occupies the first floor of a building in the center of the country. The restaurant's board of directors meets to submit the annual statement of account...and on this particular night, everyone is waiting for the shares to be redistributed according to what Hajj Marzouk Ashmallah wants. Complex characters whose personal histories vary and whose destinies intersect in “The Bride”... a whole world revolves within it, at the bottom where the management and its conflicts are, and at the top where the cook and the dancer and the suffering of the workers.” New Year’s Eve, a small green car was crossing Talaat Harb Square in central Cairo, and above its ancient tower at the far end of the square, the “Misr Insurance” clock had passed twelve o’clock, and the graceful second hand moved and turned, so the new year entered its first minute and the car’s driver was distracted. The face, bewildered, behind the glass, and the black steering wheel, the seat next to the woman is vacant, and the square around her is empty, devoid of any signs of celebration, and the light is dim, around a monument of black juniper, in the center of the square, the statue of the majestic man, broad-chested, standing on his high pedestal, proud of himself, with a full, serious face, and a thick, elegant mustache, and in his hands, with his arms extended below his waist, a long sheet of paper, half open and the other half folded in a roll, the man. It carries a letter, a document, something like that.