الفيل الأزرق

Very will written. The shift between the Arabic and the slang made it feel like you're watching a movie rather than reading a book and that was even nourished by the writer's wide imagination and accurate personifications and metaphors. I must confess I couldn't put it aside until I finished it... 12 hours of non-stop reading! :)

But, on the other hand, it's a very dark story, the protagonist is leading a notoriously disgraceful and depressing life that he doesn't seem to be sorry about. I'm not saying that the novel encourages immorality, but it didn't discourage it either! It made it look so normal!
The end is OK but after a few minutes, when you think about it, you find it didn't add anything to you! In my case, it made  me feel so bad and down :/ but it might be just me :)

A good novel for those who are interested in psychoanalysis. It's sort of a combination of "The Silence of the Lambs", "The Rite", "Hide & Seek", "Shutter Island" all mixed together by a talented writer who has obviously seen all movies of the kind to protect his work from those boring 'clichés' :)
And he succeeded at that :)