The Republic of Al Hassan's Family

About this book

Between the walls of a posh Cairo suburb, "the House of Al Hassan's Family" rises, drawing a private republic's features ruled by a heavy legacy of traditions, and fenced by the deceased fathers' wills. There lives "Adam Hussein Hassan," the physician and young preacher who turned his life into an altar of knowledge and asceticism, believing his heart's doors shut completely behind his late father's will: "Women are a temptation." Adam, who fears slipping into passion's trap, suddenly finds himself before the greatest test of his principles and strict conviction. On the tale's other side comes "Shahanda," the hybrid girl carrying in her features the East's charm and English fog's coolness. She arrived from the Gulf carrying her father's-loss wound, to find herself in a house teeming with silent conflicts, feminine intrigues, and hearts boiling between jealousy and longing. Can iron principles stand against an emotion whose consequences were not calculated? And how can a republic founded on "commitment and severance from pleasures" open its doors to an intruder who shook serenity's pillars? "The Republic of Al Hassan's Family" is no mere novel about love and commitment, but a human journey into the human psyche's depths, where wills collide, secrets are unveiled behind closed doors, in a unique blend joining mystery and the search for serenity in a time of bewilderment.