The Yacoubian Building
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9789774248627
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary
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.