Ismael Ahmed

What happens when the hair-thin border between genius and madness dissolves? The novel explores this question through its darkly humorous depiction of the plight of the contemporary Arab man. An Arabic language professor, in the course of his nightly ramblings, wages imaginary battles in which he hurls lethal insults at invisible foes. One day he returns home to break the wonderful news to his wife that he had been fired from his job because this will free him for far more important things. His real ordeal begins now that he has the chance to see his town under the glare of daylight.