Contacts

About this book

Between phone numbers.. souls and memories dwell. Have you ever thought, flipping through your phone's "Contacts" list, that every name there is no mere number, but a whole chapter of your life? Behind every "contact" hides a story, and perhaps a secret, or a situation that changed your day's course or even your lifetime's path. In this book, writer Hassan Galal El-Din opens his memory's doors on an exceptional night coinciding with his birthday, finding himself alone with a coffee cup and his mobile. With warm human touches he begins summoning the faces that crossed his life; from the childhood friend who shared innocence dreams, to "the 160 Beast," that lady of majesty and hoarse voice who left an indelible trace, reaching passing situations with strangers whose roads crossed his at pivotal moments. This work is no mere narration of biographies, but a journey into the human psyche's depths, where narration oscillates between black comedy and realistic drama, and inspiring situations making us wonder: who are we in others' eyes.