The Shadow of the Apple is a special realistic fiction. The novel revolves around an imaginative incident. The Nile Delta sinks due to a torrential flood, in which Alaa El Sayed Tawfiq survives and shelters on an island that emerged in the middle of the new sea where he met a woman and three children, whom survived on same island. We hear the bitterness of their personal defeats through the skillful narrative of the writer and doctor Mohamed Ibrahim Qandil in his first published work, that won the Literature News Award for the novel.
