The Yacoubian Building  by Alaa Al Aswany

The Yacoubian Building

Alaa Al Aswany with Humphrey Davies (Translator)

256 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual repression, religious extremism, and modern hopes of Egypt today.All manner of flawed and fragile humanity reside in the Yacoubian Building, a once-ele...

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