2024-02-14 15:00:00
The novel “A Gamble in Lady Mitsi’s Honor” revolves around the world of betting and horse racing, in the 1920s, through 4 main characters, united by one bet despite their different goals and cultural references. The novel monitors class conflicts and the unattainable dreams of its heroes, amidst suspense and a strong plot to know the fate of… Action heroes.
The four characters that make up the narrative fabric bring together a Bedouin boy, an English woman, a retired officer and a horse broker in one place. On an exceptional night, the poor boy “Fawzan” finds himself forced to run in a horse race, at the largest horse track in Egypt, where kings and pashas gather for… Fulfilling the wishes of three strangers.
Between love, desire, and pricks of conscience, then the fear of falling into the abyss… four destinies are intertwined, united by the word “hope” and a deeply sensitive dramatic drawing that completes the true picture of class conflicts and difficult but legitimate dreams, and in a long scene of a story that seems short, the blind attachment to hope occurs within each character, Until the writer gives the story a distinctive character that makes you live with the heroes of the story, moment by moment, in anticipation and eagerness, waiting for what might happen to the four owners of the story in the end.
The work delves into the depths of the history of Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century, amidst a scene in which an English woman, Lady Mitsy, stands out at the forefront. It is a composition, although it is usual in this type of novels, but it arouses curiosity all the time towards knowing the story of this woman, what brought her here, and what made her… All these threads are intertwined in a novel that plays on excitement and suspense as the main focus of attraction as well as its dramatic structure.
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