About the novel "Chicago"!

This novel of 453 pages actually 446 pages of reading which appeared in January 2007 from Dar El Shorouk in Cairo, was an instant success, and till the end of November 2007 has been reprinted nine times. Thereafter, it has known an unprecedented number of prints in the Arabic literature of modern times in Cairo, after Naguib Mahfouz.  As a matter of fact, these were the legal prints, and I can't figure out, the forged ones, because they are numerous. In my opinion this novel is fantastic. It has a definite personality, a message and a purpose. It could be classified as a transnational literature, though it relates two different societies.
Some has accused the novel and its writer already of putting too much porn language, or erotic material or dialogue or description, I personally find it very artistic and in its place. It is an eye-opening novel, that you can't leave more than one day before completely reading it and reaching its end, to find yourself touched and affected by its characters and their different stories whether converging or diverging. Chicago can be analyzed on different levels as I think, but to my mind, you can discover each level by multiple re-reading of the work. But even if you read it once, you will find a work of fiction that can be compared to a vibrant movie with different scenes and settings, with a rich dialogue totally natural. It has been rumored that it will be turned into a movie or a drama TV series, and we are still waiting for that. The writer has used a style of writing so intelligent, that you can't predict what is coming next whether words or events. While reading Chicago, I was totally awake, and suspense was surrounding my awareness. I had been absorbed inside the lives of the characters and was feeling the conflict inside each of them. An excellent novel, and I believe after completing it, that it will be translated also into different languages.Not only that occurred, but Alaa el-Aswany, the dentist, activist, writer and the novelist who had written this piece of fine literature "Chicago", has received many recognizing prizes and merits for this work from many countries.