Beit El-Deeb

"Life is a miracle. Let me sleep, and go away happy because your miracle is still there." This is what Mustafa, one of the members of the Al-Deeb family, engraved on a marble slab to serve as his tombstone. In this epic novel, Izzat Al-Qamhawi traces the lives of four generations of the Al-Deeb family in the village of Al-Ash, which gathered peasants fleeing Ottoman taxes. They founded it themselv...