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Cosmetic Surgery
BY THE YUSUF IDRIS LITERARY PRIZE WINNER & ACCLAIMED NOVELIST ZAINAB AFIFI.
When a charismatic surgeon sweeps into a quiet city with an elixir of eternal youth, every citizen transforms overnight. But this “happy pandemic” soon plunges the metropolis into absolute chaos: elders refuse to retire, marriages disintegrate under newfound physical vitality, and cosmetic deformities sweep through the youth. Amidst this synthetic perfection, only one woman, Sherihan, fiercely resists the needle-choosing to protect the true, uncarved map of her lived memories and natural aging over artificial immortality. Zainab Afifi delivers a brilliant, darkly satirical fantasy about vanity, mortality, and the genuine beauty of the human soul, offering a sharp, exquisitely written confrontation with a masked, ageless world.
Zeinab Afifi
An acclaimed Egyptian novelist, journalist, and Managing Editor at Akhbar Al-Yawm. A graduate of the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University, she is affectionately known in Arab literary circles as the “Ambassador of Love” for her deeply humane, romantic, and psychologically nuanced narratives. She is the recipient of the Yusuf Idris Literary Prize for her critical study on his work, as well as the Best Cultural Book Page Award in Egyptian Journalism. Author of over sixteen books-including Sun Rises Twice, Five Minutes, Dear Tyrant, and Cosmetic Surgery-her short stories have been translated into English and Italian and taught across international academic programs.
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