Al Aswany Alaa: Zgrada Jaqubian

Name: Zgrada Jaqubian
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Author: Al Aswany Alaa

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Author: Al Aswany Alaa
Publisher: Vuković & Runjić
Availability: Available
Condition: Vrlo dobro
Code: 54077

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Zgrada Jaqubian

Al Aswany Alaa

Summary

Alaa Al Aswany: The Jaqubian Building

The Jaqubian Building, once an elegant edifice in the center of Cairo built in the Art Deco style, is now slowly decaying surrounded by smog and fumes. A diverse gallery of characters resides in it: a failed aristocrat, a self-proclaimed 'study of women', a seductress with a lush body, a young student who is irresistibly attracted to fundamentalism, a newspaper editor who has become a policeman; an obese, corrupt politician who rewrites the teachings of the Qur'an to suit his own needs.

Each precisely delineated character embodies some feature of contemporary Egypt, where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and conceit of the powerful is reflected in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can quickly turn to extremism and where an older, less violent vision of society may still prevail.

When First published in 2002, "Jaqubian Building" raised an unprecedented storm and has been the best-selling novel in the Arabic language in the world ever since. He is the author of three bestsellers published in Arabic. He was born in 1957. He is a dentist by profession, and in 2002 he published the novel "Jaqubian Building", which was the best-selling novel in Arabic for several years. His new novel "Chicago" is currently in its ninth edition.

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