Orfanelli Hall

Every story has a beginning, a story, and an end, and every human being''s life is a novel in which he is the hero and through which the world around us is shaped. With amazing construction, Ashraf El-Ashmawy presents his latest novel. The stories of his three heroes 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, its behind-the-scenes, the methods of deception that take place in it, and the role of the Jews of Egypt in controlling it from the royal era until the 1970s. . The threads of the heroes'' stories are intertwined and their human relationships are complicated, so that Al-Ashmawy smoothly draws their ends, so they flow to tell the most minute details of souls and collide with conflicts that lead to crimes, and when the threads approach their ends and with the accuracy of the famous third auction that announces the death of one desire and the birth of another, surprises explode, making our minds expand to questions as much as our eyes open to facts. Is our life like an auction? What remains of our humanity if each of us becomes a piece displayed in an auction hall waiting for his turn?