The Imam Cemetery Crime: When the Graves Clamor with Their Inhabitants

About this book

In the cemetery of Imam al-Shafi'i, Hammad Taye Al-Mansi lives with death as his closest companion, selling bodies to medical students and trading in the needs of the living and the dead. Yet the novel's deepest crimes belong to people digging their own moral graves. Magdy Mahrous populates this shadowed world with Neama, a childless wife searching for life among tombs; Taye, a son carrying the wounds of the past; and Al-Turki, a respectable manager whose second face is that of a ruthless corpse dealer. As love, fear, revenge, and concealed loyalties collide, secrets surface with enough force to overturn the cemetery itself.