The Yacoubian Building
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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. Alaa 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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Modern Arabic writing
PUBLISHED
New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 253 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9789774248627
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Davies, Humphrey T.
Aswānī, ʻAlāʼ, 1957-
RELATED LINK
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1409/2004637340-d.html
SUBJECTS
Corruption -- Egypt -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Arabic fiction -- Egypt -- 21st century.
Arabic fiction -- 21st century -- Translations into English.
City and town life -- Cairo -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt) -- 21st century -- Fiction.
Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction.