Dagens Nyheter has met Alaa Al Aswany at the Gothenburg Book Fair. Ingrid Elam's review is here.
13th Sept:
The Yacoubian Building was published in a Swedish translation quite recently (happily done directly from Arabic by Tetz Rooke).
I claim it is maybe the most important Egyptian novel of the 21st century, and I recently gave an English copy to my mother, who is about to move to Egypt. It's an excellent introduction to the complexities and taboos of modern Egyptian society and a real deja-vu for anyone to have lived in Cairo!
Reviews from Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet I have found - did anyone see any additional ones?
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I read it in Greek a couple of years ago...not bad!
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