Al-Katebgy (The Ghostwriter)

About this book

In the bustle of life, while the world runs after the false lights of fame, there are tales born in darkness, dying in the silence of pride. "Al-Katebgy" is no mere novel, but a painstaking search for the "soul" lost in the cinema's labyrinths, and for the word that remained prisoner of drawers before finding its way to Hollywood. The tale begins from the heart of Los Angeles 2025, where fire devours everything except the memory of a mysterious man who wrote films no one read. "Si El-Baghdadi," the Hollywood producer of Algerian origin enthroned over the dream factory, suddenly finds himself facing death after a stroke warning him that time no longer favors him. Yet he does not fear departure; he fears leaving before finishing "the most important work"; the search for a genius unknown writer, a man with no features but a pseudonym: "the Ghostwriter." The novel transports us in a stunning cinematic narration between California's din and the silence of remote Algerian villages (Douar El-Ghabain, El-Maghbounine, and El-Ghabina).