What I’m Reading Now
Posted in Journal on Nov 17th, 2007
I’ve just finished the Yacoubian Building, by Alaa al-Aswany, and I’m desolate that it’s over. I loved it for its storytelling, its scathing indictment of Egyptian dictatorship, its sumptuous descriptions of downtown Cairo in all its shabby splendor. It took less than a week to read, which, given that I have a small baby, should tell you something about the novel’s irresistability.