Sid and the gang

In the wondrous land of chrysanthemums, a child is born with a strange name... "Master". With his birth, the prophecy is fulfilled that the curse of laziness will be broken when the animals respond to his cries... and emerge from the sacred forest bowing before him... thus saving the people of his city from death.But it''s just the beginning...In his most different novel, Walaa Kamal continues, with his usual literary boldness, to explore diverse and fertile narrative worlds, this time taking us on an imaginative journey inspired by the rich heritage of fantasy, from the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa and One Thousand and One Nights to Tolkien and Ryder Kipling, to present us with a work whose enjoyable simplicity may deceive us at first glance. But, as usual, the writer carries several levels of reading and symbolism. We discover, by the end of the pages of the novel, that the exciting adventures of Sayyid and his friends among the seven lands of the universe invite us to think and contemplate as much as they arouse amazement and admiration.