| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 54 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Fajer Al-Kaisi. |
| Summary |
A fading aristocrat and self-proclaimed "scientist of women." A purring, voluptuous siren. A young shop-girl enduring the clammy touch of her boss and hating herself for accepting the modest banknotes he tucks into her pocket afterward. An earnest, devout young doorman, feeling the irresistible pull toward fundamentalism. A cynical, secretly gay newspaper editor, helplessly in love with a peasant security guard. A roof-squatting tailor, scheming to own property. A corrupt and corpulent politician, twisting the Koran to justify taking a mistress. All live in the Yacoubian Building, a once-elegant temple of Art Deco splendor slowly decaying in the smog and hubbub of downtown Cairo, Egypt. In the course of this unforgettable novel, these disparate lives converge, careening inexorably toward an explosive conclusion. Tragicomic, passionate, shockingly frank in its sexuality, and brimming with an extraordinary, embracing human compassion, The Yacoubian Building is a literary achievement of the first order. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Corruption -- Egypt -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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Cairo (Egypt) -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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Egypt -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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City and town life -- Egypt -- Cairo -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Al-Kaisi, Fajer, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780062939142 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062939149 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12364839 |
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