The writer tried to grasp the threads of events professionally, relying on suspense, so he drew his characters honestly to match human patterns similar to them in reality, depending on flexibility in the narration and accurate description of the psychological state of people, details of place and time, human nature, contradictions of life, environments, and problems of reality, so that the illusion is a documentation of the state of Egypt after the revolution 25 January.

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Medhat Shannan is a well-known lawyer for cassation and a distinguished novelist, the winner of the Story Club Award for the best novel of 2017 for the book "The Illusion," the Bar Association Award for Creativity, and honoring Al-Gomhoria newspaper at the Egyptian Opera House.

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