BY THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND ACCLAIMED VOICE OF MODERN ARAB FICTION. A mesmerizing foray into magical realism and urban dystopia, this novel follows two young women navigating the secret alleys and modern cafes of Downtown Cairo. Their lives are irreversibly altered when they encounter a man afflicted by severe depression whose head has literally transformed into that of a dog—a surreal physical manifestation of societal alienation and existential dread. The Epic of the Dog’s Head is a poetic, hallucinatory masterpiece about isolation, freedom, and the desperate search for wonder in a grotesque, unsparing world.