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A new experience in writing about the hidden world of the Egyptian countryside, and an attempt to break through the enveloping shell that has surrounded it over thousands of years, through a new journey to an isolated village in Upper Egypt. Before finding himself immersed in the daily life of a small village on the edge of the desert. "A Countryside Doctor" is the experience of a doctor who discovers that primitive laws still prevail, and that there is an absolute authority that relies on and derives its strength from distant roots. It is a novel about love and despair, about a village that reduces the world, in which people, gypsies, and ruling powers struggle, and its hidden memory is filled with the layers of accumulated Egyptian time. Muhammad Al-Mansi Qandil; An Egyptian novelist, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in 1975, but was preoccupied with rewriting the heritage, so he retired from medicine and devoted himself to writing. He won the State Encouragement Award in 1988. Five novels were published for him, including: “A Moon over Samarkand,” which won the “Sawiris” Prize for Literature in 2006, and “A Cloudy Day in the Western Land,” which reached the short award at the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2010. And the novel “Black Battalion”, which reached the long list at the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016. Several collections of stories have also reached him, including: “Three Tales of Anger” and “A Moment of History: Stories from Heritage.”
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