The Shadow in the Backyard, (Hardcover)

<p><strong>The Shadow in the Backyard</strong></p><p></p><p>Alexandria in the 1930s: a city between sea and desert, between cosmopolitan brilliance and hidden poverty, between colonial order and intellectual unrest. At its heart, Louis Schuler runs a small bookshop-an island of words, encounters, and quiet freedoms.</p><p></p><p>Surrounded by British officers, Egyptian students, artists, and banned books, Schuler's shop becomes a meeting place where art, literature, and politics collide. Surrealism, Freud, Marx, Dostoyevsky-ideas that can liberate, and endanger. As surveillance tightens and informers draw closer, Schuler realizes that books are more than commodities: they are acts of resistance.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, memories surface-the loss of his wife, the underground cisterns of Alexandria, the sunken city beneath the sea-mirroring his struggle with truth and identity. What is visible deceives; what is hidden endures. The Shadow in the Backyard is a subtle historical novel about books as refuge, art as resistance, and a city whose light always casts shadows.</p><p></p>

• The Shadow in the Backyard, (Hardcover)
• Author: Charles Hohmann
• ISBN: 9781971610276
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-04-13
• Page Count: 228