Heliopolis

He said, "In this land of enchantment, where the desert sends khamsin to mercilessly humble us with its yellow sands, fiction and reality mix and blur its disparities. Here, miles from the Mediterranean, stories speak of the heart and soul and not of material gains and achievements, you see..." Stefan knew the reality of the country, yet he preferred its fiction, because the former was unbearable for him to explain or accept. Fables are only written in books. In 1981, in Heliopolis, Egypt, some real events occur, which Andreas Geovanos seeks to narrate through his main character, Stefan, in his "Heliopolis". Many will think them as fables. One event, the assassination of Sadat in the neighborhood of Heliopolis, was very real, despite the overwhelming calm that followed, but it happened as if it were a fable. For the rest, time transformed the occurrences into myth and exalted their actions to lore. Invincible Teo and magical Eleni Malakoff mystified Stefan. Lyla arrested reality while Egypt's landscapes and history are depicted and heroes dance in front of the author's eyes and pen. One Heliopolis has the oldest obelisk in existence standing; the other Heliopolis is the city of the Baron Empain. Both Heliopolis, yards apart, hide within them a great part of ancient and modern humanity, in a continuous history of civilization. But above all, Heliopolis, according to Herodotus, had the greatest chroniclers among Egyptians. So let the stories begin...