One Step Toward Madness

About this book

After an enigmatic abduction outside a petrol station, an unnamed narrator recounts his life from the edge of an abyss. His troubled relationship with Francesca, his search for his mother and sister in Annaba, his shadowy work manufacturing news and speeches, and his pursuit by a system embodied in a bald-headed figure merge into a deliberately fractured narrative. Moving between modest cafés and Parisian apartments, Mohamed Ghanmi explores alienation, failed identity, and the unstable boundary between madness and lucidity.