Hatem Hafez – författare

"Like a Cat Crossing the Road" is a novel whose subject is "the world" and not a specific place or identity. It is the story of a human being crushed in the mighty machine of globalization, dissolved in capabilities created by enormous forces that determine his fate and tear up his maps to push him towards death or madness. All of its characters are expatriates, each of them fleeing from his own great and private war, searching for a lifeline to pull him out of his personal hell. Every person here crosses his bank towards another bank, crossing quickly and in confusion, exactly like a cat crossing the road, hoping to reach the opposite sidewalk... but her life has been lost. You get lost in an instant, under the wheels of a speeding car. Novelist Hatem Hafez embarks on a new and unusual adventure in Egyptian literature, not only because the characters in his novel are non-Egyptians, but because the events themselves take place entirely in "exiles" between Swiss Basel and French Paris, in addition to other exiles in the background.

This is a novel that delves into the human soul. To extract from them - through the flow of the stream of consciousness - fleeting memories, defying the memory defects that afflict a person who has turned one hundred years old, and who has reached this age without getting sick! Because he is not an ordinary person, but rather a writer of emotional novels, the waves of his faulty memory seem elusive. He remembers his mother, who was also suffering from faulty memory. But he does not mention whether he had his appendix removed at the age of ten or at the age of forty! Because he was a romantic writer who lived alone, he was always afraid that he would die without anyone knowing about it. So he circumvented the matter by complicity, wrestling with events that suddenly appeared in his memory and whose full details he did not remember.. But he never forgot to go to bed early; To be ready in the morning to write something that can give others hope to continue living!