His girlfriend, Busayna, finds herself unable to earn a living without also providing sexual services for the men who hire her. He studies hard, and passes all the exams, but when he is rejected because his family is neither rich nor influential, the bitterness sets in. Taha, the doorman’s son, has aspirations beyond the slum in the skies, and dreams of one day becoming a policeman. The Yacoubian Building – once grand, but now dilapidated – stands on one of Cairo’s main boulevards.
An international bestseller, ‘The Yacoubian Building’ is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption.
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