The Yacoubian Building
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: August 1, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780060878139
First sentence: The distance between Baehler Passage, where Zaki Bey el Dessouki lives, and his office in the Yacoubian Building is not more than a hundred meters, but it takes him an hour to cover it each morning as he is obliged to greet his friends on the street.