"The Corridor": a piece of the Rwandian civil war hell

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"The Corridor": a piece of the Rwandan civil war hell

Beirut bookshop (Muscat /Cairo) recently published the novel "The Corridor" written by the Egyptian writer Mamdouh El Sheikh, in 156 pages of medium size. Novel which takes place in an atmosphere of civil war in Rwanda (1994), with an Egyptian hero (Saleh Farouk) who arrived to Kigali International Airport from Paris to join the Rwandan branch of French company in France, where he worked as a translator in its headquarters in Paris.
As soon as the arrival at the airport begins the dramatic events went quickly from the explosion of the aircraft carrying Rwandan President Geoffnal Habiyrimana. Suddenly, the hero finds himself in a car traveling at insane outside the capital to escape the bloody ethnic unrest triggered by the assassination Habiyrimana. In the first dialogue held by the driver of the car after a stopover in a small break on the way discovers that his transfer from Paris was not a coincidence that a friend of the Rwandan Patriotic Front opposition to the rule Habiyrimana played a role in transportation in the hope that becomes a source of information yet to be moving to Rwanda a reality inevitable it.
With a deep sense of horror of violence, which began just minutes after the assassination of Rwandan President, the hero finds himself has fallen in the abyss, after the release from Egypt to France and, consequently, from France to Rwanda, which seemed a paved road to wealth.
Because the international airport was closed, and so the countrys borders. The hero has one choice: engaging gradually on the agenda the only person who knows (the driver George Damas), and therefore Damas gave hem a file about the background of the crisis in Rwanda. Over the course of Estrangement fearsome swings between the hero can adapt to survive and hope to escape from the trap, while surrounded by blood.
And passes for a few days, some of which are exotic experiences backgrounds and documentaries from the true facts of the Rwandan civil war. Through escape from the unknown with the only surprise for his friend his friend Jean-Paul who entered the country suddenly offside after a civil war and favor able for the first time sleeping in a place other than the car, which will move with the gene to "Akazo", a stylish building where the leaders of the clandestine organization who ruled Rwanda at the time of Habiyrimana Documents released by some Western embassies, which had been breached, deployment, documentation. In the "Akazo" the hero found its own interests before the "liaison officer" Frenchman played the role of the link between the underground and the French State, speaking exciting bargaining between the parties: "My life for the truth"!
But the truth which he knew under the deal comes as all did not imagine: a pre-established scheme for the implementation of multilateral one of the worst ethnic cleansing in modern history, then he lost the benefit of all sense of hope and power swept hem strongly ....
After the shock of the deal and decide for Jane to go to the nearest camp of United Nations forces in the hope of reducing the size of the disaster on the way face the fact that the disaster has already occurred, in the way the rain falls and turns dark road to what looks like the huge glass panel with reflection of light on the roof of the car, the rain water gathering on the hills However, shortly after the water changes color as Jane turned to a valid, saying they were moving in a river of blood, The rain fell on the blood and carried them to the road which is between the low hills. Although tracking blood they found on one of the largest mass graves in Rwanda and eyewitnesses watched the soldiers burying the dead in mass graves and are doing is intended to hide the effects of the mass grave.
Successive shocks did not stop hinted for next to nothing to shine under the car and when pondering find that bracelet gift from Jean-Paul to his wife years ago, and the surprising complexity of the tongue and unable to talk straight friend that his wifes body found in this mass grave.
Hides for bracelets and moving with Jean Akazo back to them and the only person who survived the massacre (which is a Rwandan real man). With the arrival of all the bottom of despair comes the news the fall of the capital, Kigali in the hands of the opposition heading for Kigali and Jane to leave with the hope that return of the international airport to work. With news of the dumping of the bodies of some victims of the massacres in the River Nile for sweeping sense of overwhelming desire to leave Rwanda by any means, at the request of Jean-Paul remains valid for two days to translate documents obtained by the Rwandese Patriotic From Western embassies.
Discover the benefit of reading the documents that the massacre was a weapon from two sources: Egypt and China, and the last meeting between him and Jin who told him Chinese arms that had hooks and machetes, while the Egyptian arms firearms, and when events caught some of the victims are collecting all we have to win "authensia" which means "shot", and thus there has been two corridors to the other world: Egyptian and Chinese. The victims became as much as he wishes the Corridor to the other world through the "Egyptian" corridor .

Book: the corridor.
Authors: Mamdouh el-Sheikh.
Publisher: Beirut (Muscat / Cairo)
Size: 156 pages of medium size
Date Published: 2009.

Author contacts:
E-mail: mmshikh@hotmail.com
Phone: 002-010-1761266.
Publisher E-mail: b_bookshop@yahoo.com