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The Yacoubian Building (Paperback)

By: ALAA AL-ASWANY (Author) and Humphrey T. Davies (Translator)

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"Alaa Al Aswany has conjured a bewitching political novel of contemporary Cairo that is also an engagT novel about sex, a romantic novel about power, and a comic yet sympathetic novel about the vagaries of the human heart. Even the least politically oriented reader will find it engrossing."

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A bestseller in Egypt, THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING revolves around the inhabitants of the apartment building of the title: a womanizing old man, his bitter sister, his scheming one-legged servant, a disillusioned shop girl and her optimistic boyfriend, and an elegant drug dealer seeking to work his way into politics. Alaa Al Aswany writes with a masterful combination of ribald humor, political insight, and psychological depth. He shows how the political corruption of Egypt filters down through every level of society, infecting the hopes, loves, and dreams of the country's hapless population.

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