by Alaa Al Aswany · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807819889
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«Palazzo Yacoubian» is the contemporary fiction novel by Alaa Al Aswany, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (215 pages, in Italian).
The action takes place in a Cairo building constructed in the 1930s, whose inhabitants represent different faces of Egypt: the doorman's son who falls into fundamentalism, an aristocrat nostalgic for the monarchy, a homosexual intellectual, and a businessman seeking to enter politics. Thus are portrayed the country's corruption, religious hypocrisy, and social inequality.
The work was originally published in Arabic in 2002; the Italian edition by Feltrinelli, translated by Bianca Longhi, appeared in 2007 in the Universale Economica collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and social novel, with an interest in current Egyptian literature.
