August Book Sense Pick A fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed \'scientist of women.\' A purring, voluptuous siren.
Tragicomic, passionate, shockingly frank in its sexuality, and brimming with an extraordinary, embracing human compassion, The Yacoubian Building is a literary achievement of the first order..
In the course of this unforgettable novel, these disparate lives converge, careening inexorably toward an explosive conclusion.
All live in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor slowly decaying in the smog and hubbub of downtown Cairo, Egypt.
A corrupt and corpulent politician, twisting the Koran to justify taking a mistress.
A roof-squatting tailor, scheming to own property.
A cynical, secretly gay newspaper editor, helplessly in love with a peasant security guard.
An earnest, devout young doorman, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism.
A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into her pocket afterward.
August Book Sense Pick A fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed \'scientist of women.\' A purring, voluptuous siren
