The Yacoubian building
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alaa Al Aswani ; [translated by Humphrey Davies].
Contributors: Davies, Humphrey T.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Description: The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.