“The Yacoubian Building” author Alaa Al Aswany offers another Egypt-based novel also likely to become a global book club favorite. In the years leading up to the 1952 revolution, a formerly wealthy Egyptian forced into bankruptcy finds employment at the Automobile Club of Egypt. As the years go by, his life and those of his children are ever more intertwined with the ongoing political conflict gripping their country. (CSMonitor.com review, 8/20/15)
(Knopf, 495 pp.)
