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The yacoubian building
This books written by Alaa al aswany is An immersion in the Egyptian culture of the 90s before the 9/11
A man over sixty, without children, dedicated to drinking and free sex, comes into conflict with his sister, who tries to forbid him to steal his possessions; the son of a doorman who, disappointed in the aspiration to join the police, finds a reason for living in religious fundamentalism; a good girl who, due to the sudden death of her father, is forced to look for a job and accept the owner's sexual advances to round up his salary; a man who wants to enter politics and discovers, in spite of himself, how expensive the compromises are to which he must submit to reach and maintain in the Time the goal; a gay intellectual who lives his homosexuality without restraint despite being expressly prohibited by the Islamic religion. The Yacoubian Palace, in which the stories of the characters are intertwined, offers a cross-section of the Cairo society of the 90s addressing some universal issues such as corruption, nostalgia for a past with a strong Western influence, the unhappy condition of women, the drift of Islamic fundamentalism towards forms of terrorism, the bitterness that permeates the lives of humble people.
Is like Pleasant cross-section of Egyptian life and society. Every now and then some unimportant detail too much ....... problem maybe deriving from the translation, I'm not able to judge. In any case enjoyable as a whole.
Very well written!! 8/10
#entertainment
This books written by Alaa al aswany is An immersion in the Egyptian culture of the 90s before the 9/11
A man over sixty, without children, dedicated to drinking and free sex, comes into conflict with his sister, who tries to forbid him to steal his possessions; the son of a doorman who, disappointed in the aspiration to join the police, finds a reason for living in religious fundamentalism; a good girl who, due to the sudden death of her father, is forced to look for a job and accept the owner's sexual advances to round up his salary; a man who wants to enter politics and discovers, in spite of himself, how expensive the compromises are to which he must submit to reach and maintain in the Time the goal; a gay intellectual who lives his homosexuality without restraint despite being expressly prohibited by the Islamic religion. The Yacoubian Palace, in which the stories of the characters are intertwined, offers a cross-section of the Cairo society of the 90s addressing some universal issues such as corruption, nostalgia for a past with a strong Western influence, the unhappy condition of women, the drift of Islamic fundamentalism towards forms of terrorism, the bitterness that permeates the lives of humble people.
Is like Pleasant cross-section of Egyptian life and society. Every now and then some unimportant detail too much ....... problem maybe deriving from the translation, I'm not able to judge. In any case enjoyable as a whole.
Very well written!! 8/10
#entertainment
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