Bahr and Shams

About this book

Inside the corridors of Al-Huduu Psychiatric Hospital, Shams El-Din believes he is the Desert Falcon, a secret agent charged with preventing gravity from melting away. Beside him is Bahr, whose imagined powers and unlikely intelligence sources sustain their mission. Their escape attempt, Operation Ray of Freedom, turns rice grains into maps and medicine boxes into battle plans. With dark comedy and gentle philosophy, the novel questions who has the right to define sanity and what truths may hide inside an unconventional mind.