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American University in Cairo Press
January 2005
On Sale: January 1, 2005
262 pages
ISBN: 9774248627
EAN: 9789774248627
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has
become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one
of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of
the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished
squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the
gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless
businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each
sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt --
where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious
hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and
defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the
exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn
quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent
vision of society may yet prevail. Al Aswany's novel caused
an unprecedented stir when it was first published in 2002
and has remained the world's best selling novel in the
Arabic language since.
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