Magnificent, sweeping, visionary prose that in its insistent torrent allies the trivial and the priceless, realism and poetry.

Informed by the author's own experiences, this notebook recreates, in a diffractive mode, a fantasized vision of the Great City (that could be Cairo) and tries to exhaust its mystery. By picking the exact moment when fatigue from fasting gives way to weakening, Anton Beraber delivers an ironic yet tender portrait of those who falter where religious dogma and human nature meet.