The Yacoubian Building: A Novel
by Alaa Al Aswany
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Author: Alaa Al AswanyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-08-01
ISBN: 0060878134
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Summary: 4 Stars
Ala Alaswany language is simple, direct and readable. His description of the people in Yacoubian Building is not far from Egyptian soap operas' characters which all arabs are used to watch every year after having breakfast in the month of Ramadan. However, Yacoubian Biulding is not suitable for TV mass broadcasting becuase it is too explicit and too vulgar. The theme dominated the novel is sex. Adultry, homosexual sex, nymphomanic women and many other kinds of lovers (...sex doers) are on every page of this novel. But Alaswany used the sex to shock the arab reader and stimulate him to go deeper looking for the hypocisy and corruption in Egyptian life. For the western reader the novel is good to change many prejudice and misconcepts about arab society.
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