Book Description | “They tell about Prophet Daniel Street, about the legend of the earth splitting and swallowing beautiful girls in the middle of the day, about a shoe seller who got lost with his goods inside the basement of his store, and about a donkey’s legs that one day sank into a cemetery’s well. About a lost tomb for a king who wanted to reach the end of the world and the end of the sea. A fortune teller predicted that no one would be able to conquer the city in which his body would be buried, and that it would know happiness forever. Starting with a mystery that has occupied the city of Alexandria for years; The mystery of the hole that suddenly opened on “Prophet Daniel” Street and swallowed a girl holding her fiancé’s arm. She disappeared and no trace of her was found. The heroine of the novel embarks on a journey of searching for the truth of that mystery and the truth of the girl whose history has almost completely disappeared. In parallel with this journey during which the heroine retraces the steps of the forgotten girl to write a novel, her obsession with investigation extends to reflections on the idea of life, death, love, and existence, stuck within the circle of her puzzle, weaving from that attachment her own story, stories about her family, and others related to the city’s residents. |