Blood and Milk - Mohamed El Gizawy

Section: Arabic novels

Number of pages: 381 pages

Publisher: Juice Books

“I am not the savior that the descendants of Israel were waiting for, and I was never the messiah that the followers of Jesus were waiting for, nor am I the Mahdi that the Muslims were waiting for, but I was always and only a goldfinch.
My mother gave birth to me in Qarn al-Shams in the land of Yemen two thousand seven hundred years ago.
I am Hassoun, son of Safiya, daughter of Ezekiel, son of Maimonides.
And I am Hassoun bin Abdullah bin Ismail bin Shams Al-Qurashi.”
If hunger does not kill me and existence does not perish, then I will write down the whole story, I will write down everything I have seen since my mother gave birth to me in the century of the sun in the land of Yemen, two thousand and seven hundred years ago.