The yacoubian building book review5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tragicomic, passionate, shockingly frank in its sexuality, and brimming with an extraordinary, embracing human compassion, The Yacoubian Building is a literary achievement of the first order. In the course of this unforgettable novel, these disparate lives converge, careening inexorably toward an explosive conclusion. All live in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor slowly decaying in the smog and hubbub of downtown Cairo, Egypt. A corrupt and corpulent politician, twisting the Koran to justify taking a mistress. 'The Yacoubian Building' is a novel about modern-day Cairo, using the residents of the building as a broad cross-section of Egyptian society. A roof-squatting tailor, scheming to own property. A cynical, secretly gay newspaper editor, helplessly in love with a peasant security guard. An earnest, devout young doorman, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism. ![]() A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into her pocket afterward. A series of individual tales set in modern Egypt, each offering a slightly different view of life in Cairo, as lives overlap in an old colonial apartment. August Book Sense Pick A fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed 'scientist of women.' A purring, voluptuous siren. Play Book Tag: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany - 3 stars : 2 10: 11:39AM Club littraire p.: Club Littraire Parisien du 14 mars 2021 17h00 (en ligne) 1 3: 12:39PM Middle East/North. ![]()
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