Valley of the Bull: The Maze of Anxiety and Salvation

About this book

Where does one go when the maze closes in and no lifeline remains in hand? In "Valley of the Bull," the question is not about a place but about that thin distance between the anxiety gnawing at the soul and the salvation that comes only at the price of memory's stings. This is no passing short-story collection; it is a mirror reflecting our scattered souls in the age of "no time," and places that have become ghosts inhabiting us rather than places we inhabit. It is an invitation to stop at the edge of the inner abyss. Omar Ali El-Gaqoumi takes you on a deep journey that does not content itself with narration but penetrates the tissues of feeling. You will meet the lost who have not lost the dream of return, and that soul which feels that love is "a great cause, like religion and homeland." You will witness silent dialogues behind the closed doors of the heart, where memories scatter like the wreckage of a ship sunk in a sea of oblivion, and where every desperate hero tries to find the "word of return" that grants him the key to a new beginning. The valley here is no geographic spot but a symbol of crossing — that liminal period resembling a dark room in which the soul waits, trembling, for the crack of light. Stories about anxiety as a homeland and return as the only possible victory.