Stone of happiness

In a sarcastic language, Azhar Girgis lures us into following the life of an obscure photographer, whose ultimate goal is to live in peace and die without noise. Kamal, the photographer who carries his camera and roams the markets and old alleys, documenting the lives of people and the city, finds himself one day involved with an armed gang, which surrounds him with shock and turns his chest into an arena where bulls of fear compete. Events unfold and escalate in a dramatic manner, and he brings a silencer weapon, trying, as is his habit, to put a logical end to the journey of the helpless. It is a journey of suffering and happiness that begins with finding a small stone among the weeds in the Jinn Garden in Mosul, then stopping at the Martyrs' Bridge in Baghdad where the face of the Tigris withers and the memory of drowning. In this novel, Girgis's distinctive style of black comedy and a sarcastic sense of every calamity that fate befalls his heroes are present.