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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Aug 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.99
Pages: 272
The lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of the Yacoubian Building, a once elegant, Art Deco apartment building in the heart of downtown Cairo, intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout young doorman, secretly gay newspaper editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together. Reader's Guide available. Original. 40,000 first printing.