#559 Blessed Night- Naguib Mahfouz
“Yesterday,” said the bartender, “I dreamed that a gift
would be presented to a man of good
fortune.”
That is the proclamation that Safwan heard at the bar before
departing for home. Only he never found his home. Drunk and confused he stood
before an empty lot that was once his house and his family. He was taken in by the
police for being drunk and disorderly before being pitied and sent back to his
address. This time, there was a house there, but still not his.
There is a crazy series of events that are confusing to both
the drunken Safwan and to the reader. It appears that he had made an unwitting
deal, a deal of a lifetime, to exchange his family, home, and his life for what
was in a suitcase: “In this suitcase is all that a happy man needs in this
world.”
I wonder what it is?
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