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Almost twelve years after the death of Naguib Mahfuz, a manuscript with a note that read "to be published in 1994" was found in his desk drawer, the year in which he was attacked by Islamic terrorists, causing paralysis of his right arm. which prevented him from continuing to write normally. These eighteen unpublished stories transport the reader to the heart of Cairo, where maids, beggars and midwives meet on market days who keep the secrets of the inhabitants of the neighborhood: Ayusha, who falls in love with the oven waiter from seeing him come and go so much with dough and loaves; Naqba, son of the water carrier, who never tells lies; Kámila, a disowned young woman who sets herself on fire at dawn; Mr. Saqr, a family man who keeps gold guineas hidden in the bathroom and Ali Zaidan, the player looking for a wife. Not to mention the demons that live hidden in the old fortress...