![]() The building itself has a unique history of its own. ![]() Their narratives touch upon the history of the city, particularly its colonial past and how Cairo became a city that was open to several communities and people of different ethnicity. These characters show the city’s diversity, its class divisions and the problems the different classes face because of belonging to that particular class. The many characters that weave in and out the narrative of The Yacoubian Buildingis the highlight of the novel. Their lives intersect and connect in so many different strands that are unknown even to them. The Yacoubian Building centres on characters that live in the old and quaint Yacoubian Building. ![]() The novel is translated from Arabic by Humphrey Davies. The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany was originally written in Arabic. ![]()
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