The characters-a poor, young woman a young man who wants to be a police officer a philanderer a businessman who goes into politics a gay newspaper editor and others-show us different slices of that life. This unusual book jumps from character to character to paint a portrait of modern Cairene life.
Corruption is everywhere in this novel, in spite of this novel’s deceptively sensual beginning. Alaa al Aswany paints a depressing picture of life in Cairo around the turn of the twenty-first century in The Yacoubian Building (solidly translated by Humphrey T.
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