![]() ![]() The book, in its broadest sense, describes the changing fate of a building, a beautiful but now faded apartment block built during the 1930s: The Yacoubian Building has therefore achieved something that very few Middle Eastern novels manage: a huge popular readership, not only domestically, but throughout the wider region and across the world. ![]() ![]() This Egyptian best-selling novel, written by former dentist Alaa Al Aswany, was first published in 2002, and immediately had an enormous impact, becoming a national bestseller and the world’s best-selling work of fiction in the Arabic language. Translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies ![]()
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