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The Yacoubian Building |
| Alaa Al Aswany |
| American University in Cairo Press, 2004, hardcover, 253 pp. |
| The Yacoubian building symbolizes all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since it was built in downtown Cairo. From the doorman's pious son to the tattered aristocrat, the gay intellectual and the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt. This highly acclaimed yet controversial novel depicts political corruption and religious hypocrisy in an unprecedented literary style. A film version was released in 2006. |
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