Location(s): Cairo
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
A series of individual tales set in modern Egypt, each offering a slightly different view of life in Cairo, as lives overlap in an old colonial apartment block.
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The Yacoubian Building offers western readers a fascinating glimpse of how life might be lived within different social levels in Cairo; the reader is swept away in the hustle and bustle of the street...
An interesting concept – novel set in Cairo
Set in Cairo, in an apartment block, an ingenious way of bringing different people and their stories together, against the background of Cairo and religion and diversity. Interesting, well worth a read if you are heading to Cairo, because...
The novel, set in the period of the 1990 Gulf War, tells the stories of a number of residents of The Yacoubian Building in the former European quarter of Cairo. These residents are of very different social status and...
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