The Cellar

About this book

Behind Aziz's smile.. lurks a horror that dared not touch him. Have you ever wondered whether the jokes we crack in fear's moments are mere fragile shields hiding a bitter truth? Aziz, a thirty-year-old excelling at hiding his constant tension behind round glasses and wonted wit, lives with his mother "Aziza" a quiet life punctuated by the tea kettle's whistle and innate motherhood worry. But beneath this stillness, signs began looming on the horizon; steam taking human faces' shape, jars shattering untouched, as if the past his mother thought she had closed forever decided to knock on the kitchen door anew. Despite his mother's desperate warnings, Aziz insists on breaking estrangement's wall and visiting his aunt's old house, driven by a material need and merciless curiosity. There, in that house whose shadows swallow light, he finds himself facing "the Cellar"; the place where fungi do not content themselves with growing on walls, but seem to pulsate with a living heart, and have an insatiable appetite for the curious. Between.