The Wicked

About this book

Have you ever dared to look long into the mirror, not to check your dress, but to search for that "villain" lurking behind your gentle features? In his new book "The Wicked," writer Mohamed Abdel-Naeem takes off the masks we all wear, confronting us with a truth at once terrifying and simple: "The wicked are not those we read about in newspapers or see on screens, but are we.. with all our moralisms and false virtues." The work begins with a mysterious journey taking us to the world of Fathi El-Terbi and his son, where death is no end, but a profitable trade, and where graves are dug up to reveal the greed of the living exceeding the stillness of the dead. The book moves between shocking realism and existential philosophy, posing grand questions about relative ethics in a society selling "courage" and "honesty" as commodities on shelves. In a refined literary style and a tone rising from suspenseful mystery to contemplative inspiration, the work surveys human models standing on the edge of the abyss; between "the broker of the hereafter" who.