Fiction2002

The Yacoubian Building

Alaa Al Aswany
Overview
Region

North Africa

Egypt

Era

Contemporary

Language

Arabic

Genre

Fiction

About This Work

A cast of characters living in a decaying Cairo apartment building stand in for Egyptian society: a corrupt aristocrat, a Coptic Christian, a Islamist, a journalist, a gay man living in a rooftop shack.

Literary Significance

The bestselling novel in the Arab world in decades; an unflinching diagnosis of Egyptian society's corruption

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