Mon premier blog

The Yacoubian Building: A Novel by Alaa Al Aswany

The Yacoubian Building: A Novel Alaa Al Aswany ebook
Page: 255
Format: pdf
Publisher:
ISBN: 0060878134, 9780061197659

Even the Egyptian Nobel laureate Nagib Mahfuz cannot match this volume of sales. Set in downtown Cairo at the time of the 1990 Gulf War, this intriguing novel shows modern Egyptian life through the eyes of a diverse range of characters, all of whom live in an apartment block called the Yacoubian Building. Richness of description and characterisation helps make The Yacoubian Building a first-class novel. A diverse set of characters all trying to co-exist in the Yacoubian Building. The Yacoubian Building is a novel by Alaa Al Aswany, translated by Denys Humphrey Davies and made into film by Marwan Hamed - the biggest budget ever for an Egyptian film. Both books portrayed human's hunger for power, but Alaa al-Aswany portrays the characters in The Yacoubian Building in a more unscrupulous fashion than Samia Serageldin did in her novel. His first novel “The Yacoubian Building”, published in 2002, has sold more than 150,000 copies in the Arab world. Sixteen attendees at the Montrose Great Books book club on June 2, 2011 gathered to discuss THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING . This contemporary novel completely bypasses mummies and pyramids for modern Egyptians who live in the Yacoubian Building, an apartment and office high-rise situated on one of Cairo's main streets. I was surprised to hear how well the book was received in the group. The setting of this novel takes place in Egypt. One minute you want to buy a plane ticket, the next you are horrified - or terrified. 'It's burglary as well as piracy' copies of The Yacoubian Building (available as a PDF file) in Hebrew. It also makes it pretty surprising that his intriguing new novel, follow-up to The Yacoubian Building, should be a tale of campus life at the University of Chicago. It was inevitable the book turned into the most anticipated and expensive Arabic movie ever made. Omaret yakobean / The Yacoubian Building, Marwan Hamed's film version (from a screenplay by his father, Wahid Hamed) is based on Alaa' Al-Aswany's polemical 2002 best-selling novel. The Yacoubian Building is a rich and multi-layered examination of the intersections of sex, race, class, and state violence in modern Egypt. The work is not a polemic for a neo-con think-tank but a novel, The Yacoubian Building, by the Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswany.