In the year 1091, "Kush Ku" arrives in Cairo from Nubia with his uncle to learn the basics of service at the Shepherd Hotel. Between the corridors of the ancient hotel and the streets of the capital, full of noise and life, Kush meets contradictory characters and lives adventures that are no less rich and strange, only to realize that the world is not as simple as he imagines. Kush Ku, who loves reading books and magazines and is obsessed with knowledge, searches for his place in this world that always tells him that he is just a servant... but deep down he feels that he is much more than that... *** In his fourth novel, Waala Kamal accompanies us to Egypt at the dawn of the twentieth century Let us see the Khedive of Ottoman rule under British protection as we have never seen it before. Through a charming narrative that does not fall into the trap of deceptive nostalgia, and a tremendous momentum of events, we live the story of Kush Ko's wondrous life, full of adventures, amazing historical figures, and a stunning descriptive experience that sheds light on the brutal power of the white colonizer, turning history in this novel into a rich dramatic space. It does not stop taking our breath away until its last pages.