The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany, Humphrey T. Davies

The Yacoubian Building



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ISBN: 9780060878139
Format: pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Page: 272


Ever since finishing The Cairo Trilogy by Mahfouz, I've desperately wanted to read another chapter of it. [Alaa Al Aswany] the Yacoubian Building a Novel(BookFi.org). Alaa al-Aswany : The Yacoubian Building. Download The Yacoubian Building: A Novel Amazon.com: The Yacoubian Building Books: See all 62 items > ›.. The Yacoubian, an Art Deco-styled apartment building constructed in the 1930s in downtown Cairo, originally served as apartments for Egypt's elite. The Yacoubian Building is as much about loss of innocence in a world marred by corruption and poverty as it is about the forces that fuel revolution. The Yacoubian Building describes the romantic and business entanglements – none of them on the up and up – of the Yacoubian's occupants. Michael Gove The work is not a polemic for a neo-con think-tank but a novel, The Yacoubian Building, by the Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswany. The Yacoubian Building ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān عمارة يعقوبيان‎. It covers the overlapping lives of residents of the real-life Yacoubian Building in downtown Cairo in the year 1990. The Yacoubian Building: A Novel book download. The Yacoubian Building itself represents Egyptian society in microcosm, A kaleidoscopic mish-mash of beliefs, sometimes conflicting but always contrasting making for a diverse group of people from all walks of life. Alaa El Aswany was born in Egypt in 1957, the only child of an ex aristocratic mother and a well known father from Aswan, in Upper Egypt. Here he writes about Alaa al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building. Egypt's most expensive film to date, with a plethora of stars and dazzling locations, The Yacoubian Building resembles an overblown Hollywood-style melodrama that would not have shamed Douglas Sirk. The 2006 film Yacoubian Building is based on the 2002 novel of the same name.

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