A Land Without Grown-ups

About this book

Cairo begins to dissolve from within when a mysterious illness targets everyone over thirty. What first appears to be a passing epidemic reveals itself as a deliberate culling, leaving Nour, Ziad, and an abandoned generation to inherit a city of falling bodies and moving shadows. Death is no longer the end but the opening of something darker. Nour enters an unknown past in search of a secret buried beneath the remains of an ancient civilization, discovering that the disease may conceal a cosmic experiment. Survival belongs not simply to those who fight, but to whoever understands the truth before darkness consumes them. Blending science, mythology, nightmare, and psychological uncertainty, the novel races toward the question at its core: what remains of humanity when the adults—and every familiar rule—disappear?